"Same-Sex Marriage and Interracial Marriage" was a recent topic on Issues Etc. [Excuse me: why isn't anybody putting quote-marks around that word anymore? A year or two ago, it was same-sex "marriage."]
Two points stuck out. First -- never, in all the world's history, in any culture, was a same-sex union considered to be marriage. Even in cultures that accepted homosexuality as just another option, nobody considered that relationship to be marriage.
Second -- what about the charge that those who oppose same-sex unions are just like the bigots who opposed interracial marriage? The speaker pointed out that that kind of bigotry was never about the essence or definition of marriage. It was always about racial "purity" and guarding whiteness. It was about the hatred that wanted to prevent mixing races. But the argument then was never about what marriage IS. The arguments today are not about who can and can't get married (although some say that it is); the argument today is about what marriage is.
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