[Lynn22515]

The fact is that the one-man/one-woman marriage is an arbitrary convention that is still to this day not common practice in many cultures. In fact, eastern branches of Orthodox Judaism practiced polygomy right up until 1948. (It was a major point of argument in creating the new Jewish state.) Only in Western cultures has one-man/one-women been common practice for marriage arrangements, and often those were not legally sanctioned in any way by a governing body -certainly not in biblical times. To say it goes back thousands of years is unsubstantiated. Show me a marriage certificate of a 15th Century peasant women and her husband. They made a commitment to live and love each other till death do they part (and oftentimes without any church authority or mention of God bringing the union together), a party was thrown, and then their family and friends considered them married. If they migrated to another country and said they were man and wife, they were, and no one showed a piece of paper to anyone in order for the laws of marriage to apply to their relationship. There is just no logical way to equate diads of the same sex joining in marriage with anything other than simply that. Incestual laws will not go out the window, we’ll just have to add that brothers can’t marry brothers, and sisters sisters. Bestiality is still illegal and immoral, and so are many of the other sexual practices often quoted as being ‘let loose’ if gays are allowed to marry. Polygomy is almost completely eradicated from Western culture, as I well believe it should be, in the name of egalitarianism for women and proper respect for all human beings. This is not a brick being knocked out of a feeble wall (marriage) that will bring the whole thing crumbling down. It’s simply a new brick being mortered to the top of the wall, which makes it stand taller and more strong for the whole institution of marriage, and to the people who commit love and devotion for life to one another. You can accept that or not, but the wall will grow taller as our civilization evolves to respect love in all its many forms.

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Name : Lynn22515, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Gay, Race : mixed, Age : 37, City : Washington, State : DC, Country : United States, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class, 

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