chopper- Your ideas about gay marriage seem to echo those of Lee Harris in his popular article on tradition, in which he, a gay man, opposes the idea of gay marriage. I'm not persuaded by the idea that simply because a practice has always been one way it cannot be modified. I'm trying to think of historical precedents that have remained b/c of that argument: women's sufferage, absolute monarchy, slavery, etc. Mating is a genetic practice, but not marriage, and I think we'd be hard-pressed to find a "wedding" gene. By saying that you don't want homosexual unions to have "equivalent" …
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