In response to:
"The second is to reduce the threat of epidemic-level, taxpayer-crushing, out-of-wedlock births."
Considering the current rate of out-of-wedlock births, we're already at the "epidemic level." Perhaps more attention should be paid to this issue, even though, by common sense, it is a purely heterosexual failing.
NOTE: This is the first column in a series of columns related to National Marriage Week, Feb. 7-14, 2013.
Those who remember the old version of the SAT might recall the analogy section: “This is to that as that is to this.”
The SAT no longer requires students to demonstrate aptitude in reasoning through this vital cognitive exercise—unfortunate because so many Americans find it difficult to recognize false analogies. And no group has exploited this deficiency more than politicians.
Adam Cohen observed in a 2005 New York Times piece: “Intentionally misleading comparisons are becoming the dominant mode of public discourse....
if you wish to discuss changing the definition of marriage and advocate for changing it, you are free to do so.
the problem is that under the currently accepted definition of marriage, same-sex marriage is an oxymoron. there is no equal protection argument unless the definition of marriage is changed.
A hand is a hand,a foot a foot, a man a man and a woman a woman.
There are always exceptions, but there is a universally accepted definitions.
Word games can be played, of course.
Entertaining to some personalities, I suppose.
Make everything murky, then there can be no disagreement.
What a wonderful World that would be.
Run to the roundhouse, Jack, they can't corner you there.