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Who decided to use the term "marriage" anyway?
February 18, 2010 @ 2:54pm
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We shot ourselves in the foot the moment we decided to try to align ourselves with the religious Heterosexual term that marriage is. Quite honestly, I don't understand all of the gays/lesbians who want to identify with an outdated, corrupted, chauvinistic, conventional, un-equal relationship that heterosexual marriage can tend to be. Why couldn't we have come up with our own term that we could build the definition around. I think the terms "commitment ceremony, union ceremony, devotion ceremony", etc, etc, are more reflective of the relationships that most gays and lesbians strive to have.
To me, our relationships are so much more than "marriage"! We should have left that term in the dumpster where the straights have put it and move on with our lives by our terms and our definitions!
