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Argument:The definition of marriage is fluid and should evolve to include gay marriage
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- Pamela Dickey Young, Head of Queens University Department of Religious Studies, "The Place of the Church in the Same-Sex Marriage Debate" 4/21/05 - "Marriage is a socially constructed relationship that varies over time and geography. For instance, marriage in the West has often been the entitlement of the privileged. Serfs, slaves, indentured workers; servants over much of history have not been expected or even allowed to marry. There have been laws against racial intermarriage. Women have throughout most of history been subordinated in marriage to the authority and economic power of their husbands. So, the control of marriage has been a form of social control."