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Reply #35: you're spot on about "traditional"
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Wed Mar-22-06 04:45 PM
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35. you're spot on about "traditional" |
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until there's a law that defines violations of tradition with legal remedy, I think tradition and the law should part company.
Traditions are not fixed anyway - they change over time, and some people even start new ones. That's how we got the ones we have.
In fact, in an extended sense the constitution exists to protect the rights of the minority to practice their traditions free from interference by the majority if the traditions of the majority are different.
In that same way I would have to say that I have a traditional gay family. Those pesky mixed sex marriages are completely untraditional in our community.
Go figure.
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