Well, this goes back to a point I made a long time ago. While you can't legislate culture, you can use legislation to influence it. The running arguments about church and state, faith-based initiatives, etc. are adaquate proof, eh? Legislating a difference, even in term, is essentially condoning an "us vs. them" attitude. Legislating that two people hooking up for life is marriage levels the field a bit, and smooths the way for cultural acceptance.
I know it's a little bit on the PC side, but in many ways it works. This is why we have police officers instead of policemen and humankind instead of mankind. I'm not saying it's a little bit absurd, but it's important to people. And, since it's important to my friends, it's important to me. --Ben Sam wrote: > So you see it as all or nothing. I can respect that. I was thinking > more of wining one battle at a time. I don't think letting gays use > the term marriage will change culture, not yet at least. It's as if > you want to use the law to force cultural to accept them, only time > will. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Purchase Contribute 3 from House of Fusion, a Macromedia Authorized Affiliate and support the CF community. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=53 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:173667 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
