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

[cargoweasel.livejournal.com]

Ah, what do scientists know about it?! They're the ones that tell us we evolved from monkeys! They're the ones that tell us our God-given fossil fuels are causing some crazy 'Greenhouse effect'! Stupid scientists. Buncha liberals is what they are. Worse yet - secular humanists!

[rikoshi.livejournal.com]

"So, hon, what did you learn at school today?"

"I learned that Orson Scott Card is wrong, Mommy!"

"That's nice, kiddo."

[archteryx.livejournal.com]

What, exactly, does Orson Scott Card have to do with this? I know he's a conservative Catholic; has he made some sort of public statement in favor of the amendment or something?

-- ArchTeryx

[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

[baxil.livejournal.com]

Quoting Bush's science advisers, are we?

[baxil.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link. It's good to see. :)

[araquan.livejournal.com]

*applaud*

[hydra-velsen.livejournal.com]

America is dying. It's been dying since the 60's. We'll see more and more of this as time goes on. Eventually it'll have to it a breaking point.

[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...