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True Marriage is more diverse

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Debating Marriage: What's a " Hater " To Do? In the   Public Discourse   today,   Narrator   Principal Brian Brown writes on the need for marriage advocates to discuss marriage in a way that appeals not only to reason, but also to emotion, intuition, and imagination. Brown outlines Nathan Hitchen's document  You’ve Been Framed: A New Primer for the Marriage Debate   to suggests several methods of unifying marriage advocates "so that we can pursue a future in which we are no longer viewed as haters and bad guys." Hitchen argues that to change aspirations, marriage advocates must understand five basic things: Emotion , which interacts with reason in people’s moral imaginations; Narratives , which shape people’s biases about pretty much everything; Stories , which make things relatable and personal in a way no courtroom argument does; Metaphors , which allow the mind to easily process and retain complex ideas; and Memes , which are easi...