Please allow me to make a proposal. Can we not concede one inch and take back the language on this issue? I, for one, refuse to refer to any gay relationships as "marriage".
When that happens, I notice that others have a hard time getting to the next step because we are unwilling to concede the language even for the sake of civil argument.
It is akin to calling a flower a duck. It is not marriage and we might as well get on with this fight by meeting them at their starting line rather than caving in to the language. Once that has occurred, we are left arguing that "marriage" is not marriage. Huh? No, gays living together however devotedly is not that. I am not sure what it is - it could be a chaste and deep friendship or it could be a sordid and twisted relationship (as are some marriages) but it is not marraige and never will or can be that.
Ms. Lopez,
Please allow me to make a proposal. Can we not concede one inch and take back the language on this issue? I, for one, refuse to refer to any gay relationships as "marriage".
When that happens, I notice that others have a hard time getting to the next step because we are unwilling to concede the language even for the sake of civil argument.
It is akin to calling a flower a duck. It is not marriage and we might as well get on with this fight by meeting them at their starting line rather than caving in to the language. Once that has occurred, we are left arguing that "marriage" is not marriage. Huh? No, gays living together however devotedly is not that. I am not sure what it is - it could be a chaste and deep friendship or it could be a sordid and twisted relationship (as are some marriages) but it is not marraige and never will or can be that.
God bless,
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