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Merriam-Webster Dictionary Redefines Marriage

March 20, 2009 RSS Feed Print

By Dan Gilgoff, God & Country 

World Net Daily, the must-read website for religious conservatives, reports that venerable dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster has amended its definition of marriage to include "the state of being united to a person of the same sex in a relationship like that of a traditional marriage."

Remarkably, the story was brought to light via a YouTube user, whose clip I've included here.

Hat tip to Andrew Sullivan.

Tags:
religion,
gay rights

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Dan Gilgoff covers religion for U.S. News & World Report. He is the author of The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America are Winning the Culture War, and is a former politics editor at beliefnet. E-mail Dan at godandcountry@usnews.com.

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