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Originally Posted by tater
Marriage—the word—means a union of man and woman. That's what the word means, and has virtually forever (and in the long history of marriage, "interracial" marriage has in fact been common—I'd argue that laws limiting it by race occupy a shorter time frame than the rest of the history of marriage. That's why I think a new word makes more sense.
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Dictionary definitions change from decade to decade. The dictionary doesn't tell us what a word should mean, it tells us what the contemporary meaning is. Because a word has been used to define something in the past doesn't mean that it will continue to do so in the future, or that it should.