Friday, February 20, 2004
LOVE AND MARRIAGE...PART 2
Google has a very neat tool on their website...you can define words. As long as we seem to have some confusion about who or what is "changing the definition of marriage"...
Thanks to a listener, I went to my dictionary and found the actual definition of marriage. Websters lists it as "a union between a man and a woman"...several others say the same thing. I guess they'll all have to be recalled after we "redefine" marriage in our constitutions and court systems in the various states. They better hurry though, with the way things are going, they risk being called 'homophobic' and 'bigoted'
From Google (define: marriage)...here are the range of confusing definitions. Get a load of the ones I've highlighted in bold:
Definitions of marriage on the Web:
the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce); "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union"
(www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn)
two people who are married to each other; "his second marriage was happier than the first"; "a married couple without love"
(www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn)
the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony; "their marriage was conducted in the chapel"
(www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn)
a close and intimate union; "the marriage of music and dance"; "a marriage of ideas"
(www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn)
A man and woman legally living together as husband and wife.
(www.taxcentral.co.uk/taxcentral/home/glossary/glossarym/default.asp)
The act of uniting a man and woman for life... Marriage was instituted by God himself. . . . "Marriage is honorable in all. . . ." Heb. 13. Marriage: ...men and woman are joined in a special kind of social and legal dependence for the purpose of founding and maintaining a family. . . an intimate or close union
(www.face.net/Webster's_1828.html)
A legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife.
(www.hrblock.com/taxes/partners/aol/glossary/tax_glossary_m.html)
It's an agreement in which a man loses his bachelor degree and woman gains her master's.
(www.crr.com.my/joke318.html)
a King and a Queen of the same suit. See common marriage, royal marriage.
(www.pagat.com/marriage/pingloss.html)
The union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life
(elo.legalaid.qld.gov.au/asp/glossary/glossary.asp)
A set of cultural rules for bringing men and women together to create a family unit and for defining their behavior toward one another, their children, and society.
(highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072549238/student_view0/glossary.html)
the only permanent cure for love
(www.qis.net/~jimjr/marr57.htm)
a sacrament, when two people are joined in wedlock.
(www.southern-artist.com/VMEGglossary.htm)
An ancient practice of taking a life's companion or long term sexual/social partner. (see Marriage.)
(www.aznewage.com/dictionary%20m-n.htm)
the ceremony of union of man and wife was a sacrament of the church
(www.anu.edu.au/history/medieval/resources/churchglossary/glossaryi.htm)
a civil contract between a man and woman.
(www.mgrlaw.com/familylaw/FamilyLawDefinitions.html)
A legally recognized and/or socially approved arrangement between two or more individuals that carries certain rights and obligations and usually involves sexual activity.
(www.nelson.com/nelson/sociology/sociologyinourtimes2/glossary4.html)
What you really need after you no longer need personal freedom.
(www.ups.edu/faculty/phuo/diction.htm)
Google has a very neat tool on their website...you can define words. As long as we seem to have some confusion about who or what is "changing the definition of marriage"...
Thanks to a listener, I went to my dictionary and found the actual definition of marriage. Websters lists it as "a union between a man and a woman"...several others say the same thing. I guess they'll all have to be recalled after we "redefine" marriage in our constitutions and court systems in the various states. They better hurry though, with the way things are going, they risk being called 'homophobic' and 'bigoted'
From Google (define: marriage)...here are the range of confusing definitions. Get a load of the ones I've highlighted in bold:
Definitions of marriage on the Web:
the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce); "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union"
(www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn)
two people who are married to each other; "his second marriage was happier than the first"; "a married couple without love"
(www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn)
the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony; "their marriage was conducted in the chapel"
(www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn)
a close and intimate union; "the marriage of music and dance"; "a marriage of ideas"
(www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn)
A man and woman legally living together as husband and wife.
(www.taxcentral.co.uk/taxcentral/home/glossary/glossarym/default.asp)
The act of uniting a man and woman for life... Marriage was instituted by God himself. . . . "Marriage is honorable in all. . . ." Heb. 13. Marriage: ...men and woman are joined in a special kind of social and legal dependence for the purpose of founding and maintaining a family. . . an intimate or close union
(www.face.net/Webster's_1828.html)
A legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife.
(www.hrblock.com/taxes/partners/aol/glossary/tax_glossary_m.html)
It's an agreement in which a man loses his bachelor degree and woman gains her master's.
(www.crr.com.my/joke318.html)
a King and a Queen of the same suit. See common marriage, royal marriage.
(www.pagat.com/marriage/pingloss.html)
The union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life
(elo.legalaid.qld.gov.au/asp/glossary/glossary.asp)
A set of cultural rules for bringing men and women together to create a family unit and for defining their behavior toward one another, their children, and society.
(highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072549238/student_view0/glossary.html)
the only permanent cure for love
(www.qis.net/~jimjr/marr57.htm)
a sacrament, when two people are joined in wedlock.
(www.southern-artist.com/VMEGglossary.htm)
An ancient practice of taking a life's companion or long term sexual/social partner. (see Marriage.)
(www.aznewage.com/dictionary%20m-n.htm)
the ceremony of union of man and wife was a sacrament of the church
(www.anu.edu.au/history/medieval/resources/churchglossary/glossaryi.htm)
a civil contract between a man and woman.
(www.mgrlaw.com/familylaw/FamilyLawDefinitions.html)
A legally recognized and/or socially approved arrangement between two or more individuals that carries certain rights and obligations and usually involves sexual activity.
(www.nelson.com/nelson/sociology/sociologyinourtimes2/glossary4.html)
What you really need after you no longer need personal freedom.
(www.ups.edu/faculty/phuo/diction.htm)
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