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> Lawyers for the four states said their bans were justified by > tradition and the distinctive characteristics of opposite-sex > unions. Reads like they d
by braythwayt 11y ago
> Lawyers for the four states said their bans were justified by
> tradition and the distinctive characteristics of opposite-sex
> unions.
Reads like they dusted off the old arguments in favour of slavery and/or segregation and remixed the recipe for marriage.
Take a dollop of “tradition says it should be so,” and sprinkle on “distinctive characteristics” to taste.
- thisisdave 11y ago"distinctive characteristics" reminds me of "The peculiar institution of the South---that, on the maintenance of which the very existence of the slaveholding States depends" http://users.wfu.edu/zulick/340/calhoun2.html http://users.wfu.edu/zulick/340/calhoun2.html