Saturday, July 10, 2004
...But I'm Not Ready for an Institution
Another reason I would like the FMA to fail: It would make Chimpy look like a damn fool. Pertinent quote:
Bush singled out Massachusetts' Supreme Judicial Court, which called marriage an evolving paradigm. "That sends a message to the next generation that marriage has no enduring meaning, and that ages of moral teaching and human experience have nothing to teach us about this institution," he said.
So, it doesn't matter that fifty years ago, a white person couldn't marry a black person? It doesn't matter that five hundred years ago, marriage was pretty much used to ensure property contracts? It doesn't matter that five thousand years ago, polygyny was en vogue amongst the men of the Old Testament?
Marriage does have an enduring meaning: Uniting two people in a loving contract before the eyes of a)the state and/or b) God. The finer points of that meaning, however, have been changing throughout history. We can't argue that marriage can't change because "it's tradition," because it has a tradition of change.
Bush singled out Massachusetts' Supreme Judicial Court, which called marriage an evolving paradigm. "That sends a message to the next generation that marriage has no enduring meaning, and that ages of moral teaching and human experience have nothing to teach us about this institution," he said.
So, it doesn't matter that fifty years ago, a white person couldn't marry a black person? It doesn't matter that five hundred years ago, marriage was pretty much used to ensure property contracts? It doesn't matter that five thousand years ago, polygyny was en vogue amongst the men of the Old Testament?
Marriage does have an enduring meaning: Uniting two people in a loving contract before the eyes of a)the state and/or b) God. The finer points of that meaning, however, have been changing throughout history. We can't argue that marriage can't change because "it's tradition," because it has a tradition of change.
