Pride Month post #19

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For as long as the matter was even being discussed, I have rejected the very concept of “same-sex” marriage. To me, it was and remains an obvious oxymoron, and I had no problem saying so. (Now, of course, my opinion is “hate speech”.)

Way back when, while the various introductory steps were still being instituted, there was a particular phenomenon that kept taking place. Something would be proposed that would advance the crusade; some opponent would object that this was part of a slippery slope leading toward “gay marriage”. The activists would not only protest that it wasn’t, but condemn the objection as alarmism, baseless paranoia, and even deliberate dishonesty.

Then, of course, a few years later, once all the foundations had been laid, “gay marriage” was openly the crusade that was being waged, and the same people who had been pooh-poohing the alarm — insisting that nothing like that was going on — were ostentatiously condemning anybody who disagreed with the thing that they had previously sworn wasn’t even what was being talked about.

Liars. But then, leftists generally do nothing BUT lies and abuse of authority.

That actually was a bit of a digression, albeit one I felt deserved mention. What I mainly wanted to say was the reasoning behind my belief that there’s no such thing as actual same-sex marriage. It runs like this:

Marriage — the thing itself — is quite a bit older than the English word denoting it. Marriage — the thing itself — is older than the English language. Marriage — the thing itself — is older than any language currently spoken on Earth. So, when the word “marriage” came into existence, it was simply the newest term for recognizing and identifying something that was already there. And the thing being identified, the thing that was already there, was a particular type of arrangement between … a man and a woman.

There is, then, no such thing as same-sex marriage; the “same-sex” part and the “marriage” part are mutually exclusive.

Yes, I know: the law (not a law passed by any legislature, but a ruling by a Supreme Court that no longer exists) demands that we must now all recognize as marriage something that, no, isn’t marriage. Check my Pride Month post #8 regarding when nonsense is written into law.

It isn’t a matter of allowing, or not allowing, same-sex marriage. There is no such thing as same-sex marriage. Hundreds of millions of us are required by compulsion to pretend it’s a fact … but we all know it’s a pretense.

Ultimately, everyone knows it’s a pretense.