GLAADly Defiling The Traditional Definition of Marriage
If there’s one thing we can rely on for certain extremist elements in our society to attempt, is to redefine all the traditional definitions of things they disagree with, and marriage is certainly no exception.
Redefining Definitions
In the last several decades, the so-called “progressive” ideology has claimed that certain words don’t mean what they have traditionally meant. We’ve seen the redefinition of “illegal alien” which originally meant a person who enters a country in an illegal manner, to “undocumented immigrant/migrant” because the redefined term masks the fact the person has, in fact, violated the laws of the United States.
Even the terms “sex” and “gender” have been redefined by liberal activists, wholly disassociating their long-held meaning (virtually interchangeable) to separating their intended definitions and practically making a crime the term “sex” in reference to a person’s biology. By pushing the concept of “gender identity”, liberals have successfully redefined gender to mean anything that any individual thinks it means for them.
In this last case, the possibilities for pushback are endless, because even the pronouns “he”, “him”, “she”, “her” have been redefined from a single long-held defined standard, to the whims and feelings of the individual on any given day. The insanity for language comes when these redefinition exercises extend to traditionally-plural pronouns being used to refer to a singular individual, with the resultant practical death-threats of people who “misuse” the newly-redefined word in reference to someone.
In The Gunsight
Well, it seems that recently the definition of “traditional marriage” has been in the gun sight of radical liberal/LGBTQIA++++++ (how many more are they going to add?) activists.
Earlier this month, star of 80’s-90’s sitcom “Full House”, Candace Cameron-Bure, did an interview with the New York Times Magazine about her move from the Hallmark Channel to the newly-formed Great American Family channel. During the interview, Cameron-Bure who has never been shy about her Christian faith, said:
“I think that Great American Family will keep traditional marriage at the core.”
Candace Cameron-Bure
The Demons of Hell
Suddenly, after news of that interview was reported, it seemed like all the demons of Hell (aka extremist liberal activists) flooded social media with vitriol and hate against Cameron-Bure.
The negative comments against Cameron-Bure seemed to boil down to “she’s homophobic” or “she hates LGBTQIA+ people” – all of which Cameron-Bure has denied.
One of my “favorite” hate-filled comments was from uber-left-wing gay/lesbian activist and president/CEO of equally extremist-radical activist group GLAAD, Sarah Kate Ellis, who said on Twitter that Cameron-Bure’s comments were “irresponsible and hurtful,” and claiming Cameron-Bure was using “tradition as a guise for exclusion.”
What Is Traditional Marriage?
Now, let’s take a look at how radical morons like Ellis are attempting to redefine what Cameron-Bure actually said. She used the term “traditional marriage.” Those two words were clearly both the spark for the liberal flame of hate speech against people of real faith.
But what is “traditional marriage?”
For eons, marriage meant the monogamous union of one biological man, and one biological woman. This definition has been acknowledged, known, and practiced for thousands of years. While there is historical evidence of same-sex partnerships and unions, there is no evidence that this was practiced on a large scale, and was clearly wasn’t the norm until the 20th century.
Thus, a marriage – by historical tradition – was overwhelmingly one man, one woman. The major religions of the world all have historically held to the one-man-one-woman model. Thus, the proper – and only real – definition of “traditional marriage” is this.
Nontraditional Marriage
But our society has seen over the last several decades, an increase in “nontraditional marriage” which can include open marriage and same-sex marriage. While it certainly be argued that these types of unions are legitimate in the eyes of the law and society, they don’t confirm to the one-man-one-woman model, and thus are “nontraditional.”
Are they wrong? Many people of religious faith would likely say so, because they run counter to the precepts of marriage relationships set forth in the doctrines of major religions, but we can’t say they’re illegitimate – just nontraditional.
So, when we re-examine Cameron-Bure’s comment, she’s stating her belief that the channel that she’s aligning herself with now, will focus on stories presenting the “traditional” (aka one-man-one-woman) type of marriage.
Nowhere in her comments does she insult or claim illegitimacy of nontraditional marriage, nor does she say anything negative about gay/lesbian people.
Leftist Morons, Stupid Redefinitions
It’s clearly that morons like Ellis, Jojo Siwa, and other shallow and easily-bruised celebrities and figures are claiming that Cameron-Bure said. In other words, these people are putting words in Cameron-Bure’s mouth that she didn’t actually say… hmm, where have we seen that before?
Interestingly, since this fabricated “controversy” broke, I’ve seen lots of comments by the common social media user, including some who were trying unsuccessfully to redefine “traditional” marriage as a marriage in which unhappy husbands cheat on their spouses, beat their wives, wives entering polygamous relationships, one spouse tolerating an alcoholic or drug addict spouse, etc.
Seriously I feel sorry for the people who think that those kinds of things are what a “traditional marriage” is. Honestly, if your personal experience whether you’re the “do-er” or the “do-ee” of such things in your marriage, it doesn’t make that kind of relationship normal or acceptable.
After The Ceremony
A man and a woman get married – fine. Or a man and a man, or a woman and a woman get married – OK, whatever. Fine. The ceremony is only one minute point in time. What you two make of that marriage is up to you – all those subsequent actions after the marriage ceremony, do not either define or redefine what “traditional marriage” actually refers to.
If you married a person of the opposite biological sex to yours, that’s “traditional”. If you married a person with the same biological sex as yours, that’s “nontraditional”.
That’s it.
Making It Work
It makes no difference whether you’re in a traditional or nontraditional marriage, if one or both of you act like ungodly, selfish, destructive idiots, divorce and remarry 16 times doing the same destructive crap, that’s not a reflection on either traditional or nontraditional marriage. That’s a reflection on YOU and/or your spouse. Grow up and make your marriage work well because, unlike any of these movies, marriage is not a fairy tale and it’s not 50-50… it takes 100% effort on both partners to make it last well.
Clearing The Issue
At the end of the day, it’s clear that Cameron-Bure was not casting any evil toward nontraditional marriage. It’s also clear that the radical LGBT militant faction doesn’t care about co-existing with views that don’t align with theirs. Unfortunately, they not only haven’t learned how to read, it seems that they haven’t yet learned that a “my way or the highway” attitude is not only irresponsible and hurtful, it’s also never worked well in public policy.
