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Originally posted by matthew330
My traditions? Marriage being exclusive between a man and a woman are a result of MY traditions, and i am forcing them on society as a whole. This is what marriage has meant since it's inception, everywhere (at least to my knowledge). I'm not forcing them on anyone, to the contrary it appears gay people are forcing themselves on everyone else.
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actually, marriage as we know it is really not that old, in relative terms. originally, marriage was nothing more than a contract. that's where dowery's come from. in india, there are still arrainged marraige, and in the states, dowery's were still used in the 18th century, i think. i'm pretty sure that's where the whole bride's family paying for the wedding tradition came from. in american society, polyamy was practiced for a while, and outside of america, marriage has been legal between one man and multiple women (still legal in some muslim countries) and in the past was nothing more than a business arraingement, a way of solidifying relations between family's and nations. so the "one man one woman" may be the predominant thing today and for the last 100 years, marraige has not always been that way and it has not always been about love.
/unreadable rant, over.