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Originally Posted by aliali
Opinion as fact, and wrong at that.
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not really. marriage is between two people. in some places, it's further defined as between a man and a woman. and seeing as how there are people who marry without god involved, marriage is about the couple.
his definition is fact, but incomplete (dependent on location, etc.)
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Originally Posted by aliali
Good question. I don't think anyone has answered it. What about cousins marrying?
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currently, second cousins can marry (or maybe it's third). and the reason cousins can't marry is because the closer together two people are genetically the more likely birth defects are to occur. hemophilia used to run rampant in royal familes of europe becuase by the 15-1600's, the relationships between royalter were so close they were basically inbreeding. i read a study recently though about inbreeding with rats (i think) where they concluded that it's not as bad as previously thought.
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Originally Posted by aliali
But it is about the law. None of this would have come up before the voters if four state judges in Mass. hadn't tried to change the law by misinterpreting the constitution (my opinion). It is about the legal definition of marriage, whether the constitution requires same sex marriage and whether by ballot initiative, the people want to allow it if it is not a constitutional issue. As to your question as to why people voted how they did, I have two guesses: 1) there were many, many, many different reasons; 2) since you have labeled them all as prejudiced, few people who voted to ban gay marriage are likely to want to discuss it with you.
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misinterpret? i'm sorry, but i believe they stated that because the law on marriage in mass. did not specify that marriage was between 1 man and 1 woman, gays could marry. they followed the letter of the law. you may not like that interpretation, but they were followign their states law.