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bryant ([personal profile] bryant) wrote2004-03-02 12:59 pm

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This shouldn’t come as any big surprise, but the world’s largest anthropological society says that civilization does not in fact depend on limiting marriage to one man and one woman.

The results of more than a century of anthropological research on households, kinship relationships, and families, across cultures and through time, provide no support whatsoever for the view that either civilization or viable social orders depend upon marriage as an exclusively heterosexual institution. Rather, anthropological research supports the conclusion that a vast array of family types, including families built upon same-sex partnerships, can contribute to stable and humane societies.

The Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association strongly opposes a constitutional amendment limiting marriage to heterosexual couples.

So maybe we can drop that line of attack on gay marriage? Nah, didn’t think so.

[identity profile] jeregenest.livejournal.com 2004-03-02 11:02 am (UTC)(link)
I'm amused when the same eprson saying same-sex marriage is against the way its done in any other culture is the same person speaking out against Evolution.

[identity profile] multiplexer.livejournal.com 2004-03-02 11:09 am (UTC)(link)
You mean there are other civilizations than Protestant America?

I roll to disbelieve.

<< Em rolls 1d20 and gets 1 >>

Alas.

[identity profile] willow82.livejournal.com 2004-03-02 12:44 pm (UTC)(link)
i'm glad to see someone else sees the gaping hole in that argument. (i'm adding you as a friend. i hope you don't mind:) )

[identity profile] willow82.livejournal.com 2004-03-02 01:31 pm (UTC)(link)
i was reading journals written by friends of friends of friends of...well, you get the idea:)