Tuesday, March 2, 2004Or, More Proof that Dubya and Right-Wingers are Full of Shit
Statement on Marriage and the Family from the American Anthropological Association
Arlington, Virginia The Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association, the world's largest organization of anthropologists, the people who study culture, releases the following statement in response to President Bush's call for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage as a threat to civilization.
The results of more than a century of anthropological research on households, kinship relationships, and families, across cultures and through time, provide no support whatsoever for the view that either civilization or viable social orders depend upon marriage as an exclusively heterosexual institution. Rather, anthropological research supports the conclusion that a vast array of family types, including families built upon same-sex partnerships, can contribute to stable and humane societies.
The Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association strongly opposes a constitutional amendment limiting marriage to heterosexual couples."
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Although many posts have been routed to this cateogry, it hasn't had an actual home page until today. And most of the posts don't have anything specifically to do with Paganism, but instead are on topics that may be of interests to Pagans. I was doing a bit of a Web search to see what links I could put on the page and came across this APV, apparently an organization in its infancy. I've joined its forum and mailing list, so I guess I'll see if it actually goes anywhere!
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