Since Miss California’s recent mumble-tastic response to Perez Hilton’s question about gay nuptials, there has been a lot of chatter in the media (again) about the definition of marriage.
A recurring argument by the traditional-marriage crowd, or, as I like to call them, the Anti-Gay Relationship Orthodoxy (AGRO), is that marriage has always been defined as a union between one man and one woman. And guess what? They’re right! In every dictionary I checked, marriage is primarily defined as a union between one man and one woman. What they don’t say is that most words have multiple definitions, such as the words in my trusty American Heritage 3rd Edition, which additionally defines marriage as, simply, “a close union.”
This is not the only problem with the AGRO argument.
