The Big Lie: Marriage and “Tradition”

Not only does DOMA clearly discriminate against same-sex couples and families headed by same-sex couples, but your Justice Department is helping it move forward on a lie: that two-partner, heterosexual marriage is the “traditional and universally recognized form of marriage.”

That lie is based on a bigger lie that one often hears touted by religious opponents of same-sex marriage: that marriage itself has been an unchanging and unchangeable institution for two thousand years.

Read the rest of this very interesting open letter pointing out the lies behind marriage and “tradition.”

Melvina Young, Kansas City Star Midwest Voices columnist 2007

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