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When you say liberal, do you mean liberal but still will not do gay marriages?
It doesn't make sense to call gay partnership a marriage. Marriage is a strictly defined cultural phenomenon meaning a relationship between a man and a woman with the original intention to continue the family by having kids.
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When you say liberal, do you mean liberal but still will not do gay marriages?
It doesn't make sense to call gay partnership a marriage. Marriage is a strictly defined cultural phenomenon meaning a relationship between a man and a woman with the original intention to continue the family by having kids.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
When you say liberal, do you mean liberal but still will not do gay marriages?
It doesn't make sense to call gay partnership a marriage. Marriage is a strictly defined cultural phenomenon meaning a relationship between a man and a woman with the original intention to continue the family by having kids.
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It doesn't make sense to call gay partnership a marriage. Marriage is a strictly defined cultural phenomenon meaning a relationship between a man and a woman with the original intention to continue the family by having kids.
Strictly defined by whom? It doesn't have that definition for me anyway.
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It doesn't make sense to call gay partnership a marriage. Marriage is a strictly defined cultural phenomenon meaning a relationship between a man and a woman with the original intention to continue the family by having kids.
Source? In the UK I'm pretty confident the definition of marriage isn't exclusive domain to heterosexual couples.
This does seem worrying, particularly the private citizens being given some limited subset of police power, to issue fines and confiscate items. > The Garden Bridge Trust said the planning documents detailed theoretical maximum powers that were extremely unlikely to be used It might be intended that way, but realistially, it seems that the exercise of power is invariably pushed to the theoretical maximum (and often b…
> particularly the private citizens being given some limited subset of police power What is more worrying to me is when the police have more powers than the citizenry. Recognising the right of free citizens to enforce the law is a-okay in my book, although of course that's not quite what England's doing.
> Recognising the right of free citizens to enforce the law is a-okay in my book, although of course that's not quite what England's doing.
You make a good point. I'm generally in favor of the idea of "citizens arrest" and the like. But in this particular instance, the asymmetry is concerning.
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It doesn't make sense to call gay partnership a marriage. Marriage is a strictly defined cultural phenomenon meaning a relationship between a man and a woman with the original intention to continue the family by having kids.
I'm pretty sure "strictly defined cultural phenomenon" is an oxymoron.
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When you say liberal, do you mean liberal but still will not do gay marriages?
It doesn't make sense to call gay partnership a marriage. Marriage is a strictly defined cultural phenomenon meaning a relationship between a man and a woman with the original intention to continue the family by having kids.
The function and intention of marriage has changed through time and locality.
To pick a singular aspect of a complex social construct and use that to base its purpose and definition on is myopic.
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Strictly defined by whom? It doesn't have that definition for me anyway.
You can call computer a calculator since it does indeed 'calculate' stuff, but you'll be in a minority. Computer's got so much more than a simple calculator, same with marriages - it is much more for a man and woman in every country in the world.
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I'm pretty sure "strictly defined cultural phenomenon" is an oxymoron.
Is it a better way to use different terms for when people get together to have kids and continue the family and when they just 'want' each other?