Klarinet Archive - Posting 000034.txt from 2004/03

From: <tony-w@-----.co.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Fwd: [SMB] Dont Amend Protest
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 17:03:50 -0500

----- Original Message -----
From: Jeremy A Schiffer <schiffer@-----.edu>

> > 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

Jeremy,
Well you could please enlighten me then on my incorrect anthropology? I was
speaking broadly - as no doubt you well realise. I am sad tho` that this
seems to be all you wanna say. And could you please enlighten me also to the
meaning of your term 'berdache'? I suspect that I am not of your religious
belief. But whatever religious or anthropological differences we have, our
marriage laws ain`t much different from each other`s - nor have they been
for thousands of years.
Tony W.

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