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? asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 8 years ago

Will Conservatives uphold "traditional" marriage by selling me their daughters for a couple of cows?

Or will they justify rewriting its meaning?

Update:

Guru Hank, I stand corrected. The cows come with the daughter, not the other way around. But I suppose that makes "traditional" marriage even worse - the wife didn't carry enough merit as a gift on her own.

So, to honor conservatives, I will now be accepting cows with their daughter's hand. Please form a line to the left.

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  • 8 years ago
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    That's so true

    I love it when conservatives talk about "traditionalism"."Traditionally" black people were considered 3/4ths of a human and were considered legal property. "Traditionally" women had no role in the government and were essentially slaves to their male counterparts who "traditionally" chose to wed them to the highest bidder . "Traditionally" aristocrats ruled society and trampled on the poor. Unfortunetly, conservatives are still in a Middle Ages time warp, they're still just graduating from the Classical Ages, so they understand none of this yet.

  • 8 years ago

    That is not good. They should be offering you the cows as a dowry. Tell them to keep their daughters until they can afford to marry them off to you.

  • 8 years ago

    I believe 30 cows is the typical dowry, twice that if the daughter has big knockers!

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    And, of course, if your brother dies without an heir, you're *obligated* to marry his wife.

    And you can have several wives. Including ones that you buy as slaves.

    And, of course, if you rape a virgin, you get to marry her.

    Yeah, "traditional" marriage is wonderful, let's go back to that </sarcasm>

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  • ?
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    I'm holding out for a couple of cows AND a chicken!

  • 8 years ago

    That kind of "traditional" marriage pre-dates the religious ceremony, for sure.

    Don't be fooled. When conservatives talk about "traditions" - they mean Christian dogma.

  • 8 years ago

    I don't care if you marry your boyfriend or not, the issue for me is that gay marriage is a States' issue and the liberals are trying to make it a Federal issue.

    Source(s): Texas!
  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    So according to YOU marriage involves bonding a MAN and WOMAN together.

    That's what LANGUAGE says about it, too.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    Prepare to be ridiculed, because they won't have any legitimate arguments.

  • they're so cheap they probably don't even want to pay... they have no class!

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