Quote Originally Posted by battybattybats View Post
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.
Since marriage is defined by God, then quite clearly, neither you nor I have the authority to redefine it. Just because imperfect humans have screwed it up and tried to redefine a divine institution created for the benefit of God's creation -- stability of homes, establishment of the smallest churches, unity between man and woman, and of course procreation -- doesn't mean we should throw the baby out with the bathwater OR accept as truth the attempts of misguided people to define it any way that makes them happy. Just because other cultures have different definitions doesn't mean they are right or that their definition is equally valid.

Can't wait for the Cannibal Party to demand equal treatment for their cultural tradition of feasting on their spouse(s) at the end of the wedding... I mean, who are WE to say that definition isn't valid?

The whole movement that is currently trying to define marriage in any way they please is preposterous. Words mean things. Marriage won't mean anything anymore. Just beause it is always executed imperfectly (because we are so deeply flawed and sinful as human beings), doesn't mean we shouldn't aspire to truth.

When one understands God's desire for us in marriage, then he understands the beauty of it. By sacrificing for our spouse and engaging in mutual unselfish service (which God calls for a husband and wife to do), as well as meshing the unique characteristics distinctly held by men and women, we see His perfect plan and we understand how our needs/desires get met by the other.

God's plan and definition came LONG before the aborigines... Frankly, I could care a less what they think. I only care what God thinks.