there4eyeM
unlicensed metaphysician
- Jul 5, 2012
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"Marriage" could have been left a term as it had been understood for a long time. Insisting upon using that word when the issue was really equal rights as if married. There could have been another name. The fight over the name was stupid on every side. The salient point in the whole debate is that words mean what the people using them decide, how they use them. When the majority understands marriage to mean applying to all conceivable combinations, silly to others or not, that's what it means. That is how all languages have always worked when not under some authoritarian régime with an agenda.
A lot of people here refuse to accept this simple fact. It is pure democracy. The dominant meaning of words is what they mean.
That's why, if you want a Constitution that isn't living, chisel it and those it governs in stone.
A lot of people here refuse to accept this simple fact. It is pure democracy. The dominant meaning of words is what they mean.
That's why, if you want a Constitution that isn't living, chisel it and those it governs in stone.