Initially, these human rights didn’t extend to Africans, and certainly not to women or Native Americans.
Which rights? You don’t say. Are you saying that in the early days of the republic women had no more rights than slaves?
Our culture is one which disdains promiscuity and promotes monogamy, even when it’s serial monogamy. At the same time, these same people who berate promiscuity
Our culture – these same people. Which is it?
don’t allow for the rewards of monogamy for the gay folks
What rewards are exclusive to marriage? You don’t say.
creating the self-fulfilling prophecy of unsafe sexual trysts rather than proud weddings and long-term relationships
And now we have the scape goat for gay unsafe sex. I suppose teens could claim the same excuse.
This is due, in large part, to the common notion that marriage is both for religious reasons and for procreation.
Not due to the fact that the one is multi-sex and the other is single sex. OK, right.
