New Mexico is looking better. A second county will be issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. This time it is Santa Fe County and it is by order of a district court. It's that equal rights thing.
The venerable Oxford English Dictionary has expanded the definition of marriage. It now reads:
"The relationship between two people who are husband and wife, or a similar relationship between people of the same sex."Is it timely because same-sex marriage will begin in England next year? Or is it behind the times because the Netherlands started marrying same-sex couples a dozen years ago? And why are we defined in terms of a straight relationship? Why not use the neutral "The relationship between two people who are spouses."?
At least they made the change.
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