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No, NCB, you don't get it. I'm not arguing for the complete opening of marriage to any definition possible. If I did, we could get into arguments about bestiality and incest and polygamy. But I'm simply not arguing over any of those things. My argument is STRICTLY limited to same-sex marriage.
I think tradition is overrated. For example, until the last century or so, all of a person's wealth transferred to their eldest son by default. Jews such as myself weren't allowed in Ivy League schools. Blacks were slaves, and then for a century were officially second class citizens. The Spanish Inquisition lasted centuries. None of the "traditions" are anything I would ever want to support.
Just as all those above were wrong, denying same-sex couples the right to marry is wrong. And I gladly, gladly, with a smile on my face, break with tradition when tradition is in the wrong.
And I feel sorry for those who cling to tradition for nothing more than tradition's sake while the rest of the world moves past them. It must get lonely.
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