I know it’s a waste of time to bring up facts when talking about Republicans, but sometimes you just can’t help yourself.
Marco Rubio is quoted as follows on the issue of gay marriage:
“The debate is about how do you define an institution, the institution of marriage, which has been defined the same way for all of human history,” [Rubio] said at the Presidential Family Forum in Des Moines on Friday. “That’s what the debate is about. It’s not about discriminating against anyone. The debate is about how do you define an institution.”
via Daily Kos
First of all, let’s cut Rubio some slack, and grant that human history started on Saturday, October 22, 4004 BC, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. That still means that human history has a good six thousand years under its belt, during most of which time, in many cultures, marriage was anything but the heterosexual one Adam-one Eve arrangement Rubio espouses. If memory serves, Jacob, from whose seed all Jews are sprung, was duped into marrying poor Leah, though he much preferred her sister Rachel, who he also married in due course. He remained married to Leah, and God, being the vindictive bastard that he was in those days (he softened up a bit, we’re told, after torturing his only begotten son to death and resurrection), chose to curse Rachel with barrenness, because Jacob always liked her best. But the point is that polygamy has been common throughout history, there being multiple other instances of it in the Bible and real history too, and it is still practiced widely to this very day. Nor is same sex marriage a new thing. Just ask Nero.
This is what is called fact. It is a concept that Republicans have a hard time getting their heads around. For them, truthiness is all.
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