The LA Times Reports on Christian conservatives in TX forcing Texas school boards and publishers to use approved language when talking about marriage and sexuality. One agreed to define marriage as a “lifelong union between a husband and a wife.” Another deleted words that were attacked by conservatives as “stealth” references to gay relationships.
Texas is the second-largest buyer of textbooks in the nation, after California. Books purchased here wind up in classrooms across the nation, because publishers are loath to create new editions for smaller states.
As a result, five social conservatives on the 15-member Texas board, frequently joined by five more moderate Republicans, have enormous clout — and often control the content used to teach millions of children.
Uh huh…
One agreed to define marriage as a “lifelong union between a husband and a wife.”
Uh huh… So what’s the latest American divorce rate statistics again? Last I checked, which was fairly recently, it was something like 40%.
My point? Their newer, cleaner definition is wrong. For 40% of the people, marriage is not a lifelong union between a husband and a wife.
I’d like to know how many of these conservatives are twice married- or more.
Re:Uh huh…
Thats means we try to fix it, not undermine it.
Partners?
I could see why partners would not work to describe a marriage. Not all marriages are equal in terms of who wears the pants; it can be likened to a benevolent tyranny.
But it looks like things really have changed since I went to high school.
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But it doesn’t mean that you define something incorrectly. Marriage plainly *isn’t* a lifelong union in many cases. If you want to define it as “ideally a lifelong union” that’s a different argument.
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If the purpose of marriage is to be lifelong then that is its definition. Whether people screw it up or not is beside the point.
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This sounds akin to saying something like “the point of surgery is to fix something, whether people screw it up or not is beside the point.”
Or to use a example closer to home: “The purpose of a library is to provide information to the masses, whether someone screws that up or not is beside the point.”
I see your point, I’m just not buying your arguments.