Originally posted by Liberator of Makedonija
Alexander married both Roxana and Darius's daughter Stateira II 3 years apart, though apparently Roxana killed Stateira after Alexander's death so even without any restrictions on informal relationships beyond the legitimacy of any resulting children the main issue is that it would be more logical to kill the rival lover than the person they're in love with/married to, so Pausanias is more likely to have been jealous of Philip over Cleopatra. Doesn't necessarily mean Philip didn't have a male lover though.
My general impression is that it was probably political rather than a lover's spat. From what I've read of the political situation pre-Philip and post-Alexander, it would've been pretty typical of the political situation of the time.
Originally posted by Risto the Great
The Albanian situation is colonialism. Same sex marriage is an attempt to seek the same legal rights pertaining to the management of property, visitation and other matters concerning next of kin and partners, which only really affects their lives specifically. Why should the opinion of someone completely unaffected by someone else's ability to manage their combined property and finances the same way you do in your marriage deny them the same security you have a right to? You don't even need to visit a church to marry. You can just go sign the paperwork for the legal aspect and that's it, you're married. Otherwise atheists wouldn't be able to marry either now would they.
Article 16 doesn't actually specify men and women with eachother but rather men and women receiving those rights. In fact the mention of being free of religious discrimination is most relevant to same sex couples. It could use an update to make it less ambiguous but you can't really argue it excludes same sex couples in this phrasing. And even if it did it wouldn't be the first time a marginalized group was denied basic human rights afforded to others.
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