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Originally Posted by Aegypticus
I don't feel that I'm looking at history to make moral choices. I think I'm making the correct moral choice based on today, but I am using historical examples as well as my experiences in the present to justify why there should be differentiation. In my mind, there is a need for gay couples to have the same legal rights, but I also think there is a logical distinction between a gay couple and a straight couple. The two are very, very different from where I stand, so I think what they are called should reflect that.
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Historical examples of what, though? Historically, marriage was a means to an end. To gain land, power, money, resources, slaves, ect. for a man and a status symbol and a protection system for women. Why is that positive or special enough to get it's own definition? Besides that, you are arguing that this is exactly what gay people want to use marriage for - a means to an end.