DOES HISTORY MATTER?: Arturo Fernandez replies to R.K. Becker

R.K. Becker writes that the idea of marriage between opposite sexes is universal over all time and all cultures. The reason for that is that in every
culture in history those attracted to the opposite sex have been a vast majority of the population. How can a tiny minority, two percent (let's say), contend with
what 98 percent of the population decides? Until today, when we've learned to respect individual freedom and minority rights, it's been impossible. One of the things that 98 percent of males can do is, well, whatever they want, including denying rights to those they feel don't meet their standard of masculinity.

Becker says he agrees that culture is complex but states that "a complex system depends on all its component parts." One of the parts that have contributed to the "traditional" idea of marriage is prejudice. That is a part that is not needed. A good marriage doesn't depend on it, because it's a merely a product of a vast majority's "natural" tendency to discriminate against a small minority, in this case a tendency to discriminate that evolves from heterosexuals' insecurities about themselves. That is why waiting 30 years is no good. It's discrimination now.
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