Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules

Re:Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules by vacri on Friday June 26, 2015 @09:25PM (#9788689)

You don't think that there were humans that existed before any form of codified spirituality? I'd be willing to believe that explicit ritual bonding (marriage) didn't predate religion, but find it hard to believe that the first words we uttered went along with some sort of priestly social class or referenceable rules for living.

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Re:Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules by gpvos on Saturday June 27, 2015 @05:42AM (#9789633)

I don't know what the current state of research on this is, but I find it entirely plausible that rituals and social control existed before language.

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Re:Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules by vacri on Saturday June 27, 2015 @06:51AM (#9789774)

Well, even creatures as low as termites and sardines exhibit mechanisms for social control - but it's not codified.

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Re:Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules by caskance on Sunday June 28, 2015 @01:28AM (#9792521)

Why does it have to codified?

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