Point about special pleading taken, and ok, sex isn't just about reproduction. But I haven't actually said that same sex couples shouldn't have sex - they can't. What they do is in no shape or form sexual intercourse. What I said was that they shouldn't engage in homosexual acts, which cannot to be compared with it, as ht did.
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"the English word 'couple' (meaning a man and woman in a relationship) was coined before homosexuality became accepted"
Did you know that 'service station' once meant a dispensary for petroleum fractions?
Meanwhile, Sir Elton John, David Furnish and their two sons.
Just let that concept shake your brain cell, Potatohead.
You're mistaken.
from Latin copula "tie, connection," from PIE ( Proto-Indo-European)*ko-ap-, from *ko(m)- "together" + *ap- "to take, reach." Meaning broadened mid-14c. to "any two things."
@ Thinking Allowed
The spud might argue that the English language came first -
"What they do is in no shape or form sexual intercourse."
See, it all depends on what the meaning of 'is' is.
"What they do is in no shape or form sexual intercourse."
I wouldn't actually know, first-hand. I bow to your wider worldly experience, Spuddie-Duddie.
@ Philbert McAdamia
To which the most appropriate response would be we don't even know which language was spoken at that theoretical time period. (Yes, not even christian scholars could be sure, though some would not like you to believe that.)
Even if it WAS originally American English, the event at the Tower of Babel would ensure that it would get lost in a sea of different languages and dialects, making it impossible to trace unless we could find the oldest writing and confirm that it was before the event.
It's obvious that little Spud here hasn't had any kind of sex, whatsoever, if he thinks that what same-sex couples do is that much different to what opposite-sex couples do... PIV is just one of many, many forms of straight sex, dearie.
Couple just means two of something. Oh, and it's not exclusively English, but comes from Latin, "copula", and was probably coined before England became accepted.
Even if that were true, "writing" was a word before the internet was a thing. That doesn't mean that digital text isn't writing simply because it's not created with a quill and parchment. Homosexuality predates English anyway (predates civilization as a whole, actually) so whether any English speaker ever acknowledged it is moot.
Um... my dictionary does not have anything about gender in any of the definitions for "couple."
Also, sexual intercourse is not & never has been defined as strictly heterosexual PIV, in any dictionary.
The Fundie Word Redefinition Project is still going strong, I see...
But I haven't actually said that same sex couples shouldn't have sex - they can't.
So it is not possible for a man to lie with another man as he would lie with a women? Then what is the purpose of that verse in Leviticus everyone keeps on yammering about?
Biologically, ‘sex’ is the exchange of genetic material. So, two bacteria could have sex, a man who’s had a vasectomy cannot.
However, the doctor that performed my vasectomy said, ‘No sex for six weeks’ right afterwards, so the clinical definition is not a really useful one. Not for ‘two consenting adults doing the funtime stuff.’ So, blow it out your ass.
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