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Originally Posted by Knalus
I don't know about most of you, but I find definitions to be important. Marriage has always been between a man and a woman that are not related to each other and who are not married to anyone else. (although in the distant past and/or Saudi Arabia, that last one is iffy).
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Language is not a concrete thing. It is fluid and definitions evolve.
Redefining marriage as something between two people instead of between a man and a woman isn't as big of a redefinition as some would make it out to be. Calling the participants in marriage people doesn't mean that a man and a woman can't marry nor does it invalidate heterosexual marriage. It simply means that anyone can enter marriage with the person they choose regardless of the genders involved.