‘The whole thing perplexes me to no end’, ‘While heading for the National Archives this afternoon we bumped into a bunch of “Anti-gay Marriage” types on the lawn of the Supreme Court.

For some reason people have allowed the meanings of words to change all through history but somehow, and it is really beyond me why, the meaning of the word “marriage” has been deemed unchangable. The conventional, mainstream, christian, definition of marriage has come to mean the public statement of commitment between “one man and one woman” officiated over by (among others) certain church officials, judges, and ships captains when at sea, that is recognized by the state as a legally binding contract between the two parties. That is why the courts are involved in divorce as opposed to churches, because (all emotion and good intentions aside) marriage is really a matter of contract law. Words and definitions change and evolve, it’s been going on for thousands of years…. once upon a time a villain was someone who worked on a villa, a “stone” was a hard thing in the ground instead of some peoples week-end activity, porridge was a thick vegetable or meat stew, a barbarian was someone who couldn’t speak Greek, liquor referred to “any” liquid….. and what about the mouse I used in making this post?

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