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What would help the fight for same-sex marriage is for supportive heterosexual couples to stop referring to themselves as husbands and wives and to start referring to each other as “partners.” It shows that they’re ready to move from the old definition of marriage on to the new, contemporary definition that defines men and women as equal participants. If you want to throw other people through a loop, confirm over and over again that men and women in marriages can take on whatever jobs and duties that work for them, making the “one man, one woman” definition obsolete.

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The Bilerico Project | Husbands and wives and partners, oh my!

In response to the suggestion that same-sex couples start using ‘husband’ or ‘wife’ instead of partner to normalize things for the straight people of the world, and make same-sex equality more acceptable