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Kadie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-18-09 06:05 PM
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Dictionaries 'redefine' meaning of marriage
Dictionaries 'redefine' meaning of marriage

Wednesday, March 18, 2009


(03-18) 14:45 PDT San Francisco, CA (AP) --

Only two states have laws sanctioning same-sex marriages, but the unions have made it into other books.

The nation's leading dictionaries have changed their definitions of marriage to recognize same-sex relationships.

The changes actually were made several years ago, before gay couples could legally tie the knot anywhere in the United States. But they only gained widespread attention Tuesday after the conservative World Net Daily news site published an article about the Merriam-Webster entry.

The Springfield, Mass. company now includes a secondary meaning for "marriage" that includes same-sex relationships.

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/03/18/state/n144556D14.DTL&tsp=1


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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-18-09 06:10 PM
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1. The wingnuts are free to use their outdated dictionaries if it's more to their liking
It would be keeping with their habits considering they use a tome written by Bronze-age sheep herders as their primary source of "science", "morality" and "truth".
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