Quote Originally Posted by AmandaM View Post
You have to be careful in redefining marriage. Words have power. You can potentially change the context of the society you live in. This can be dangerous. Think long and hard before changing a social paradigm.
Who is redefining marriage?

Please read my posts about other cultures.

I have close aborigninal relatives even though I am not myself aboriginal.

I have met people from a wide variety of cultures and I have family members who are Anthropologists and have discussed this issue with a number of Athropologists.

If anyone is redefining marriage it's the people who are trying over a handful of centuries to impose an exclusive heterosexual monogamy on a practice and institution of varied polgamy, varied duration and mult-sex marriage traditions that worked successfully in my country for over 50,000 years.

So please Amanda, stop redefining marriage. Your definition is extremely recent, comes from only a tiny proportion of the worlds cultures and has caused misery to countless millions of people who have been denied their traditional marriage practices and discriminated against and made second-class citizens in their own lands when it was imposed over them by force.

It is your definition of marriage that is non-traditional, that is new, that causes known harm, that is re-defining marriage.

So please take your own advice.