Re: Marriage abolishonistgalactographyOctober 23 2008, 23:45:48 UTC
The semantic debate is just a cover. People are using WORDS to justify HATE; you can't take the words away because then you expose the guilty, horrifying underbelly of the matter. After all, "civil union" is the new "separate but equal".
Re: Marriage abolishonistmeatballsodaOctober 24 2008, 05:17:34 UTC
Kathy, I agree with the basis of what you're saying. Unfortunately, the term, "marriage" has a rich history of hundreds of years of legal and thousands of years of cultural legitimacy backing it up. I can't see any new term being able to equal that.
Plus, Prop 8 doesn't give any legal definition to civil union. All it does is prohibit marriage from being used as a term to describe a union between a same-sex couple. And because there is no legitimacy to the term "civil union" at this time, it leaves same-sex couples out to dry.
Re: Marriage abolishonistmeatballsodaOctober 24 2008, 05:23:56 UTC
Hmmmm, on reflection I think I totally missed where you were going with this. However, I will leave my previous comment up because IT'S MY JOURNAL AND I LOVE TO RANT.
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Plus, Prop 8 doesn't give any legal definition to civil union. All it does is prohibit marriage from being used as a term to describe a union between a same-sex couple. And because there is no legitimacy to the term "civil union" at this time, it leaves same-sex couples out to dry.
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