Marriage and Civilization

[athelind]

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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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Take that, Orson Scott Card!

Comments

[athelind.livejournal.com]

He's a Mormon, actually, and yes, he has. I don't have a link, and frankly, I don't feel like giving him hits for his hateful little screed; you should be able to Google it.

[archteryx.livejournal.com]

Eh. I don't need to read it. I've seen more then enough hateful little screeds already, and with the election growing closer day by day, expect to see many, many, many more.

Nice to see one of the academic institutions trying to fight the Articles of Faith with some fact, tho.

-- ArchTeryx

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

I thought he was a SciFi author....?
I wasn't aware that folks who wrote scifi novels were that concerned about theological matters...They'll be inventing their own next...