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?Ancient Greek Lessons About Gay Marriage?

By ADF Alliance Alert

Emily Wilson writes at Slate: "History is always a weak argument for social change. The fact that the Greeks recognized a wide variety of same-sex bonds, and the Victorians did not, tells us nothing about what ought to happen in California, or in the rest of the United States for that matter. We should remember a simple truth known to anybody who has taken Philosophy 101: You can't get an ought from an is (or even a was). Whatever public legitimacy was, or was not, granted to same-sex relationships in any previous culture, it would still be entirely unjust, within the terms of our own society, to deny homosexual couples the legal status available to heterosexual relationships."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on September 22, 2009 (boomark / email).