Recognizing that marriage always unites a bride and a groom does not make someone ignorant, bigoted, hateful, prejudiced, or anti-gay. None of these people were ever quoted as saying marriage could exist without a bride or without groom: Moses, Jesus, Mother Teresa, Gandhi, Chief Joseph, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Susan B. Anthony, Gautama Buddha, JFK, FDR, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and the other signers of the Constitution of the United State of America. Not one world religion has traditionally called anything without both a bride and a groom "marriage". No country, including officially atheist countries, in thousands of years of history, did until the Netherlands in 2001. Were they all hateful? Having a word that has always distinguished a relationship uniting both sexes into a social and legal unit obligated to each other and the newborn citizens they may naturally produce together, as only both sexes together can, is not hateful. Repost if you agree.
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