You’ll often hear from conservatives that marriage “hasn’t changed” for centuries or millenia. Not true. Take a look at this Wikipedia summary of some of the many changes occurring only in the United States only over the past 200 years.
How marriage has changed
- Post author:Erich Vieth
- Post published:December 24, 2008
- Post category:American Culture / Bigotry / Culture / Good and Evil / Law
- Post comments:1 Comment
Erich Vieth
Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.
RICK WARREN: I’m opposed to having a brother and sister be together and call that marriage. I’m opposed to an older guy marrying a child and calling that a marriage. I’m opposed to one guy having multiple wives and calling that marriage.
STEVEN WALDMAN: Do you think those are equivalent to gays getting married?
RW: Oh, I do. I just say, for 5,000 years, marriage has been defined by every single culture and every single religion. This is not a Christian issue. Buddhists, Muslims, Jews — you know, historically, marriage is a man and a woman.
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