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Originally Posted by Knalus
I know where you are coming from, but it's more than that.
The definition is important even if it's just happening to you (and your spouse). It's about something important. Very few important things are undefined, and if they are, people do their best to define it. I got married. It has a meaning to it that was communicated to me what I had done. It's not just for mutual understanding, but for understanding oneself as well. At least this definition is.
And because it happened to me, and because it was important to me, it matters to me what happens to it, even if it shouldn't. Besides, if it wasn't important, and was easy to hand out like that, it wouldn't be worth fighting for, would it? In that case, it's important what the definition is even to those who disagree with parts of it's definition. Why not change the definition to "A marriage is a union between a man and a woman, or a man and a man, or a woman and a woman, and it doesn't really mean anything"? That's a poor way of conveying what I mean, but it does to some degree.
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You acknowledge that marriage is indeed something worth fighting for. Do you now see why gays are fighting for it?
With respect to legal definitions, consider the following:
One hundred years ago, you weren't legally considered a person if you were a woman.
Two hundred years ago, you weren't legally considered a person if you were black.
Surely you must agree that this was an injustice and it was necessary to change the definition of "person" to rectify those wrongs.