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Klarinet Archive - Posting 000016.txt from 2004/03

From: Jeremy A Schiffer <schiffer@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Fwd: [SMB] Dont Amend Protest
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 11:41:03 -0500

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 tony-w@-----.co.uk wrote:

> From: Lelia Loban <lelialoban@-----.net>
> > To Sean Osborne: Thanks for your gracious apology for the accidental
> > off-topic message, but I'm glad to know that campaigns are being organized
> > against that mean-spirited amendment. As long as both parties to the
> > marriage are consenting adults, how is it the government's business who
> > marries whom?
>
> We have been around for 1,000,000 years, 40,000 of those as humans; and in
> all that time, thru`out all the wonderful, and not so wonderful early
> civilizations, we have never had same sex marriages. In human terms, the
> word 'marriage' has meant *only* to betroth oneself to one`s opposite sex
> partner in a religious and legal ceremony. This has been going on for nearly
> 40,000 years.

All i'm gonna say here is... you'd benefit from a college level
anthropology course. There are obviously subjects about which you know a
lot, but this does not appear to be one of them.

Okay, one more thing: berdache.

-jeremy
http://klezmer.org

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