Drop Bear Growls: Bigot Point: "Same-Sex marriage isn't Traditional Marriage"

Bigot Point:

"Same-Sex marriage isn't Traditional Marriage"

I am writing this to address some of the catch phrases and fallacies that bigots use to oppose equality. I intend to link to these instead of having to rehash the same BS every time. Also i hope that those searching might read it and choose to further educate themselves by doing their own research.

The video version of this post is right here:

This post also applies to the false claim that marriage has always been strictly between a man and a woman.

Traditional marriage is often banded about by some homophobes, but what exactly is traditional marriage?

Marriage as a legal and spiritual institution has so many different definitions depending on culture, spiritual beliefs and time in history that it would be impossible to address them all.
So i am going to limit myself to addressing that question as it relates to same sex marriages.

Firstly you cant get much more traditional then the same sex marriages in Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Rome, Ming and Zhou Dynasty China, Ancient Mesopotamia and of course Ancient Europe.

Ancient Egypt (3100 BCE)
Ming Dynasty China (1368 BCE)
Zhou Dynasty China (1043 BCE)
Ancient Greece (800 BCE)
Ancient Rome (753 BCE)
Ancient Mesopotamia (620 BCE)
If you take a look at the dates you can see that all these traditions predate the invention of Christianity in 355 CE.

Ancient Native Americans performed same sex marriages, sadly much of Aboriginal Australian cultures is lost and we may never know how the traditional Australians treated their homosexual fellows.

Late medieval France had legal same sex marriages. While in Europe the post middle ages Orthodox church performed same sex marriages. Records exist of a church marriage performed in Spain in 1061 between two men.

Again back in Australia we see that our marriage laws were changed in the marriage act in 2004, marriage was defined to specifically exclude same sex couples.
(I will note that this goes against our constitution* and that also no plebiscite was deemed necessary by the same government that now refuses to accept marriage equality without a plebiscite.)

The Australian Capital Territory had legalized same sex marriage but these were overturned because of the 2004 definition of marriage.

While i have not gone into the various definitions of marriage endorsed by the various religions here, i will just note that strictly man - woman marriages aren't even that traditional in Christianity.

I would advise you to rethink and educate yourself if you falsely believe that marriages are only between an man and a woman.

* Section 116 of the Constitution of Australia precludes the Commonwealth of Australia (i.e., the federal parliament) from making laws for establishing any religion, imposing any religious observance, or prohibiting the free exercise of any religion.

Children need both a biological Mother and Father.

"Same sex marriage isn't biblical marriage."

"homosexuality is a choice."