mothra wrote on Aug 25
th, 2015 at 3:43pm:
I 'figure' because that is what history tells us.
The reason i am establishing precedent is because it was stated that marriage had always been a heterosexual union and that is why it should stay as such.
But history tells us that formalised same sex unions existed in ancient times, not just in Rome (where many of the unions were consensual) but in Egypt, Native America, parts of the Middle East, Europe up until the 18th century and parts of Africa.
Which all of you would know had you read the links i posted.
Actually, there are even more holes here than first noticed.
If in the past all these different tribes, nations, and empires had same sex marriage, (as you claim), why did they all stop?
Surely the fact that everyone stopped it at some point should give some big warning signs not to try it again.
This is a bit like 200 years form now making the argument;
Everyone used to smoke back in the past. Why not let people smoke now? We know there has been a big push in recent years to stop smoking and at least heavily restrict it because it fcks peoples lives up. It would be idiotic to bring it back in the future because everyone used to do it with out restriction in the 20th century. Well maybe the same logic should apply here. Maybe gay marriage went the way of the dodo because it also fcked everything up and it would be best not to give it a second chance.