anynameyouwish
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When tradition oppresses people it needs to change.
You have to admit they did not have to torpedo traditional marriage to get equal footing under the law. It was a media driven power play. Republicans were asking for it though by being such A holes on civil unions.
As a man who has been happily married to my wife for decades- how has this torpedoed my 'traditional marriage'?
Allowing two men or two women to marry doesn't affect my 'traditional marriage' in the least.
And no- there really was no other way for gay Americans to get marriage equality. As you pointed out the Right went to great lengths to not only prevent gay Americans from marrying- they also went to great lengths to deny them a legal equivalent.
So a few people went to court- and won. No one else's marriage was harmed.
Yes, married people were not harmed, but redefining traditions was unnecessary and harmful. Rewriting traditions does have an effect. It would be much the same to redefine Christmas. While Republicans were begging for this to happen, the proper thing would have been to keep fighting for civil unions. It is like, I can't get what I want, so I will redefine your traditions to get what I want. That was extremely aggressive.
"When tradition oppresses people it needs to change."
it was traditional to bow to the king.
but the colonists changed that.