No such thing as Homosexual Marriage just Marriage
September 4, 2013 ( MercatorNet ) - We have all, or nearly all, done it -- talked about " gay marriage " or "same-sex marriage". But according to William B. May, who has been in the thick of the marriage debate in the United States , that's a mistake. MercatorNet asked him to explain. MercatorNet: People trying to defend marriage know that “same-sex marriage” is a contradiction in terms, nonsense in fact, but isn’t it just shorthand for referring to an issue? What’s the harm? William B May: The only reason there is a debate about the legal definition of marriage is because of confusion about its true meaning and purpose. Without truth about marriage, people take positions based on emotion and sentimentality. To restore the truth about marriage we must witness it in a way people can understand. The first thing to consider is that no one is really proposing to put something called “same-sex marriage” in the law. They take “a man and a woman” and replace it with