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I think your third point is what's most striking about the dissenting opinion. Not providing marriage licenses to couples based on the arbitrary criteria of sex is a deliberate act of denying a specific group of people access to marriage.

The women's and civil rights movements went against the traditions of plenty of millennial old cultures such as the "Kalahari Bushmen and the Han Chinese, the Carthaginians and the Aztecs"[0] as well.

[0]http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-556_3204.pdf#p...



> The women's and civil rights movements went against the traditions of plenty of millennial old cultures such as the "Kalahari Bushmen and the Han Chinese, the Carthaginians and the Aztecs"[0] as well.

Don't forget that liberal madness about replacing monarchs with elected government!


The audacity! Europeans had feudalism for... as long as I can remember! Who do those colonists think they are?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Comm...

1569–1795

"The Union possessed features unique among contemporary states. Its political system was characterized by strict checks upon monarchical power. These checks were enacted by a legislature (sejm) controlled by the nobility (szlachta). This idiosyncratic system was a precursor to modern concepts of democracy, constitutional monarchy, and federation."




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