I saw Mike Huckabee on Jon Stewart the other day. His objection to gay marriage was that he does not want to redefine the word “marriage”. Just saw the same argument from Rick Warren, the anti-gay minister slated to speak at Obama’s inauguration. What I really wish the journalists would ask is this:
“In the event that everyone in the world except you decides they do want to redefine the word ‘marriage’ to include same-sex couples, then what would the actual problem be?”
I mean, do they really expect us to believe it’s a semantic debate?
Maybe we should just come up with a new word that includes same-sex and opposite-sex adult human couples. Say, “wubwub”. Then we could just have the hospitals and the insurance companies allow anyone in a wubwub relationship to have full rights. “Marriage” can just become an antiquated word, like “dowry”.
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