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What do religious conservatives mean by "traditional" marriage"? They mean "opposite-sex" marriage.

The gang at NOM, for instance, doesn't care if a couple hews to traditional (and archaic, sexist, and patriarchal) gender roles. NOM doesn't make a distinction between two socially-conservative virgin Baptists who wanna have as many children as God grants them and two atheist abortion-clinic doctors who wanna live a Femdom/cuckold/hotwife lifestyle. So long as both couples are opposite-sex—one man and one woman—both should be able to legally marry, according to NOM and other defenders of "traditional marriage." Only same-sex couples, a.k.a. non-traditional couples, should be prevented from marrying. Says NOM: traditional = opposite-sex and opposite-sex = traditional! Period. The End.

So while some will condemn Rep. Vance McAllister for having an extramarital affair—Vance got caught on tape—he deserves some credit for having traditional extramarital affair:

A Louisiana newspaper claims to have surveillance video showing Rep. Vance McAllister (R-LA), a married freshman member of Congress who ran for office last year as a conservative Christian with the backing of the stars of the "Duck Dynasty" reality show, "passionately embracing and kissing" one of his female staffers. The video was published online Monday by The Ouachita Citizen, a conservative-leaning newspaper that endorsed McAllister's opponent in last November's special election to fill Louisiana's 5th District seat in the House. The newspaper, which has a paid circulation of 5,200, credited an "anonymous source" with providing the surveillance video of what it described as an "extramarital encounter." According to the Citizen, the video shows McAllister kissing a woman the newspaper identified as Melissa Peacock—McAllister’s district scheduler—at his district office in Monroe.... The Citizen describes at length the ways in which McAllister touted his Christian faith during his campaign. On his campaign website, McAllister listed "faith and family" at the top of his "issues" page, and touted his 16-year marriage to his wife. The couple has five children.

("Vance on the Issues" image via Gabe Ortiz.)