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This article is from Britain, where the politics are a little different, but the main points, I think hold. Could explain why big government Republicans are jumping on the gay marriage bandwagon. In part: "...the moral meaning of this institution for great swathes of the population and for communities throughout history is being radically rewritten; the purpose of marriage, its definition, is being overhauled. It has in fact been long accepted that the state has the authority to oversee the ‘administration’ and legal aspects of marriage, to broker marriage; but it has never been accepted that the state can tell individuals, community and society itself what marriage should mean to us. Until now. Now, the state has colonised the very meaning of marriage...’." spiked-online/site/article/13164/
Posted on: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 20:05:20 +0000

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