The meaning of words change all the time…

The meaning of words change all the time…
By Renee Aste
Lowell Massachusetts

We could argue marriage as a word is no different. A word with no special status compared to any other word. If individuals want to change a word in our laws, should we say ‘no you can’t?’

But wait a moment; we can turn the argument around.
Why isn’t homosexual pairings good enough for its own term?
Are we not tolerant as a society to recognize a homosexual relationship in its own right?

We give terms to all sorts of differing relationships all the time, for example bromance or ‘friends with benefits’, yes even domestic partnerships or civil unions. Domestic partnerships and civil unions are created out of legal terminology though; words like marriage/family/bromance/’friends with benefits’ are not.

People create words through daily discussion of ideas within their culture, not through governments. Governments may enact legislation for that idea, but the idea needs a name from society first. In some cultures there may not have been a formal record of the marriage, but the event indeed at some point could be objectively pinpointed. Marriage was not a ceremony or a piece of paper but simply the consummation of the male/female conjugal act or a man may simply be accepted by the woman’s family and allowed to live with them.

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It could be assumed that as civilization became more understanding of the world, we would be able to distinguish more of it through language. As language developed, we could give names to new ideas and thoughts in our growth. As example cultures may have several terms for the word love, and create terms to denote what each word means in its own significance.

Governments don’t have the ability fake out biology and pretend they don’t know where babies come from, but apparently with enough political donations from specials interests they will sure try to. As a matter of law, we’re unable to speak of procreation within its natural origins of heterosexual activity because apparently discriminates against homosexual activity. Due to a misapplication of law to distinguish orientation (a state of being) from behavior (a physical act), it is harder then ever to discuss over pertinent issues involving kinship and it’s obligations because we are unable to define it.

Human beings exist today due to biological reproduction. In biology, reproduction involves two sexes of the species; one is designated female and the other male. Many scientists and ordinary individuals believe sex’s only purpose is natural selection. So it is rather odd at one end many accept the theory of evolution in which values only reproducing or values sacredness in human fertility, but on the other we deny that sexual relationships have anything to do with its natural outcome; procreation.