May 29 2009
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What is “traditional marriage”?
The notion of “traditional marriage” is virtually incoherent. “Marriage” has been evolving for thousands of years. At what point did anyone decide that “marriage at this time and in this cultural is what will be called ‘traditional marriage’?” Never. There is no general agreement on what constitutes a “traditional marriage” and what the proponents of “traditional marriage” are usually thinking about is some idealized concept of marriage in the U.S. in the 50s. That’s a pretty recent “tradition” for a concept that is thousands of years old.
