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Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Redefine This!
“Marriage has always been defined throughout history one way and re-defining marriage is a special right. It’s not an equal right. Interracial marriage was an equal right because it was excluding a group. This is a redefinition. It’s a fundamentally different thing.”
I am pretty sure that marriage has been defined in many different ways throughout history. As one man and many wives, as child brides and grooms,as political alliances, as spiritual unions,etc. In some countries it is even defined as one woman with several husbands. It's pretty clear that society has the right to define marriage in any way that best serves the needs of society. And gay marriage serves many positive functions. What's the point of discouraging committed, loving, monogamous relationships when they clearly benefit society and individuals?
meatcamp, what you said is reasonable and grounded in a knowledge of history and sociology. Such critical and fact-based analysis is too much to ask of Soucek and many of his fellow Republicans these days. It gets in the way of their talking points, prejudices and preconceived ideas!
J.W. Williamson was the founding editor in 1972 of the Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review, which he edited until July of 2000. He has taught college classes in Appalachian history, cultural politics, and literature, and he has lectured widely on the pop-culture history of "Appalachia" in the American consciousness. His books include Interviewing Appalachia, Southern Mountaineers in Silent Films, and Hillbillyland: What the Mountains Did to the Movies and What the Movies Did to the Mountains. He has won the Thomas Wolfe Award given by the Western North Carolina Historical Society, the Laurel Leaves Award given by the Appalachian Consortium, a special Weatherford Award given by Berea College, and the Cratis Williams-James Brown Award given by the Appalachian Studies Association.
The views expressed on WataugaWatch are solely those of J.W. Williamson or individual contributors and are not necessarily shared nor endorsed by the Watauga County Democratic Party nor by any other adults of sound mind in this or any other universe.
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Wow. Just wow. Meet the person 'representing your values' in the NC General Assembly, ladies and gentlemen.
I am pretty sure that marriage has been defined in many different ways throughout history. As one man and many wives, as child brides and grooms,as political alliances, as spiritual unions,etc. In some countries it is even defined as one woman with several husbands. It's pretty clear that society has the right to define marriage in any way that best serves the needs of society. And gay marriage serves many positive functions. What's the point of discouraging committed, loving, monogamous relationships when they clearly benefit society and individuals?
Soucek leads the NC Senate Education Committee!
meatcamp, what you said is reasonable and grounded in a knowledge of history and sociology. Such critical and fact-based analysis is too much to ask of Soucek and many of his fellow Republicans these days. It gets in the way of their talking points, prejudices and preconceived ideas!
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