Statement on marriage and the family

Stark

From the US Anthropological Association

The Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association, the world's
largest organization of anthropologists, the
people who study culture, releases the following
statement in response to President Bush's call
for a constitutional amendment banning gay
marriage as a threat to civilization.

"The results of more than a century of
anthropological research on households, kinship
relationships, and families, across cultures and
through time, provide no support whatsoever for
the view that either civilization or viable
social orders depend upon marriage as an
exclusively heterosexual institution. Rather,
anthropological research supports the conclusion
that a vast array of family types, including
families built upon same-sex partnerships, can
contribute to stable and humane societies.

The Executive Board of the American
Anthropological Association strongly opposes a
constitutional amendment limiting marriage to
heterosexual couples."

azezil

Damn religious nuts hanging onto outdated beliefs of an archaic institution, which have no place in modern society. Bush’s ignorance truely knows no bounds….

But yay the report

uberwolf

my only take on this is that marriage as an institution has its history in religion (I think) as they should be allowed discrimanate as they wish TBH. Civil unions are a state affair and are free game for the pursuit of equality.

azezil

psssshhh!!

Religion preaches equality and understanding, they're going against they're own teachings because they're afraid, they're stuck in the past hanging onto outdate morals and beliefs, its high time they woke up!

uberwolf

ah give them 500 years it is hypocritical, female priests, celibate priests the whole shebang has no basis on the basis of the original founding of the church, but they are a church and are within their rights to discriminate. Just be glad you don't live in a muslim dominated state - then you'd have other thing on your mind

damien

azezil wrote:

Religion preaches equality and understanding

Eh no, it doesn't. Some religions do, others don't.

dictatorcat

Stark wrote:

From the US Anthropological Association

Naturally when the vast majority of interested parties read this they will come to their senses :rolleyes: I hate to say it but this is really clutching at the proverbial straws. Science doesn't have a problem with homosexuality and quite a number of people who vote for the current administration and their regressive policies think that science is something blasphemous since in many cases it studies phenomen more than 6000 years old.

This report will not be read by the people who need to read it and while it is an interesting anthropological finding, politically it is meaningless.

Syth

dictatorcat wrote:

Naturally when the vast majority of interested parties read this they will come to their senses :rolleyes: I hate to say it but this is really clutching at the proverbial straws. Science doesn't have a problem with homosexuality and quite a number of people who vote for the current administration and their regressive policies think that science is something blasphemous since in many cases it studies phenomen more than 6000 years old.

This report will not be read by the people who need to read it and while it is an interesting anthropological finding, politically it is meaningless.

I don't know... Sure the hardcore fanatics can never be convinced, likewise there are hardcore gay rights people. What's important is the swing voters in the middle. This might help them smell the bull****.