What will happen when self-proclaimed defenders of traditional marriage remember that...

[Boojatta]

... in some states, for many years, the law prohibited marriage between two people of different races?

[2Design]

1. those are the same people who support not allowing gays to marry

it is just another disguise for the same people

[Boojatta]

3. How many people would donate money to an Ad Hoc Committee

to have Oprah's marriage annulled (regardless of what Oprah and her husband want) on the grounds that they belong to different races?

[verges]

8. Oprah Winfrey has never been married. nt

[wyldwolf]

2. I'm a self-proclaimed defenders of traditional marriage

It should be between two humans.

[beyurslf]

4. "Traditional marriage" in the Bible is a man having a bunch of wives.

I can't think of any place here that allows that.

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

5. Engage in cognative disonance.

[el_bryanto]

6. I'm pretty sure they are aware of it

John Stewart sprang that on Huckabee last week. They don't really have a good response to it, though, other than to go back and say that allowing blacks and white to marry isn't as big a deal as allowing two of the same sex to marry - not very convincing though.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[hedgehog]

7. Well, if you really want to support "traditional marriage", what about this?

"Indeed, a woman gave up so many civil and property rights upon crossing the threshold that she was said to be entering a state of "civil death." This unhappy circumstance arose partially because American (and Indiana) law was based upon English common law. Predicated on "precedent and fixed principles," common law had dictated a subordinate position for women. Married women generally were not allowed to make contracts, devise wills, take part in other legal transactions, or control any wages they might earn."

http://www.connerprairie.org/historyonline/wlaw.html


Or this?:

Leah (pronounced lay-ah) was the wife of Jacob (who God renamed as Israel), the firstborn daughter Laban (Leah and Jacob were cousins - see Jacob and Laban), and the sister of Rachel. Leah is the mother of Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar and Zebulun - the progenitors of 6 of Israel's 12 Tribes (Genesis 35:23). She is also the mother of Israel's only recorded daughter, Dinah (Genesis 30:21).

Hebron Although she was by all accounts always loyal to Jacob, the sentiment was not returned to the same degree - they were not one of the greatest "love stories" of The Bible. Jacob actually loved Rachel, Leah's younger sister, and they were intended to be married, but because of the custom that the older must be married first, Laban, Leah's father, resorted to a wedding-night switch in the darkness. In the morning, Jacob discovered that Leah had become his wife. Laban then permitted Jacob to also marry Rachel a week later. (Genesis 29:15-30)

Jacob's continued second-rate regard for Leah apparently never ended. Years later, when he was about to meet his brother Esau for the first time since their bitter parting (see Rebekah), Jacob thought full-well that Esau would attack with his 400 men (Genesis 32:6), so he put Leah and her children near the front of the line, and kept Rachel and her children safely in the rear. (Genesis 33:2)

http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/leah.htm