(Charisma News) -- Given recent trends, someone was bound to say not just that government should get out of the marriage business, but that support for same-sex "marriage" (let's call it SSM) is actually the conservative position. Take, for instance, Young Conservatives for Freedom to Marry. Their name is their argument: Conservatives believe in individual freedom and limited government, and so should support "freedom" for people of the same sex to "marry." If two men want to get "married," they argue, where does Big Brother get off telling them they can't?
But redefining marriage is anything but conservative, and would lead to far less freedom and far more invasive government. Here are seven reasons why:
1. Same-sex "marriage" contradicts history.
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