I'm just sorry enotsola and I can't go get a non-gendered licen

[arethinn]

I get confused by things like this:

"By definition marriage is the union of a man and a woman," said Brian Brown of the National Organization for Marriage (left).

Er, by what definition? is my first thought at a statement like that. (See, critical thinking professor from college? You did teach me something. Define your terms or you can't have meaningful discourse!)

"Marriage" means a "merging together" or "uniting", with the implication that we hope it's harmonious and beneficial. Besides people, one can speak of marrying words and music, or flavours in a culinary creation, or pools of economic resources. It's a noun formed from the verb marier, which descends from maritus, that is, conjugal, which itself means "yoking together" (cf. "religion", and let your imagination run rampant, lol).

The joining of two things. (Potentially even more than that, actually; it's not specified as far as I'm concerned.)

That's all.

I really agree with baxil here:

"Something big is indeed being lost here, and we will be better off without it."

When convention protects love, friendship, community, happiness, guard it with your life. When convention stands in the way of these things, dance in the rubble.

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[silussa.livejournal.com]

Apologies for sounding a bit cold....but in legal terms, marriage is the creation of a legal union between two people. It's a contract.

A contract doesn't care about the gender or gender preference of the contractees.

Now, the religious aspect of a marriage is a different story, and one I won't touch here and now.

[arethinn]

Sure, that too.