Loblogomy

There is a segment of society which is currently denigrating the institution of marriage. These people don’t understand what it means to make a commitment to another person—I mean, how could they, given their outside-the-norm lifestyles, which revolve largely around sex and material comfort? If they keep it up, they will destroy marriage and all for which it stands. These people must be stopped. They must be prevented from getting married, and any such marriages which have already been permitted to occur should not be recognized or sanctioned by any regional or national government.

For the love of all that is right in the world (admittedly, there isn’t much in this category), we simply must stop CELEBRITIES from getting married for now and forever!

Seriously. Lots and lots of people are getting all bent out of shape about the marriage of homosexual couples in San Francisco. With roughly 50% of current marriages ending in divorce (and celebrity marriages seeming to fair far worse than that), I’d say marriage is not much of an institution to protect. Heteros have made a complete mockery of the concept of “till death do us part” commitment. Today, marriage is something people do when it’s convenient (or if they’re like Britney, when drunk) and something they can and do rescind with little difficulty. Marriage is now just a word that has little meaning. If homosexual unions increase the number of marriages that represent what marriage should really be about—the gleeful union of two people as life partners who will stick it out with each other through times of poor and plenty—I say, let them wed anywhere and everywhere. (I realize I’m kind of stepping onto a slippery slope when I say marriage should be about the “union of two people” since it could be argued why not the union of three people, or four, or ten? There’s not necessarily anything wrong with more than two people being involved in a relationship, but for purely practical reasons, a line has to be drawn somewhere. I think it’s probably impractical for the state to have to develop a system for polygamists to receive the legal and financial benefits of marriage, since the number of people who would use it is rather small, I suspect.)

The above statements probably will shock those who have known me for a long time, those who know I use to contribute money to the RNC—not in the last 8 years, though, and I will be changing my voter registration to Independent before the November election (and since I don’t want to get flamed, let me clarify, I voted for Gore in 2000 even though I think he’s a weenie). As I get older, I am changing my views on what the role of our government should be, and I’ve decided it really should NOT dictate who people should live with or be in love with. Instead of wasting energy and resources on trying to prevent people from being happy in a way which is completely harmless to others, it would be nice to have the government (both state and federal) focus on more important things, like me not having to pay more than $2 per gallon for gas, or not using my tax dollars to kill innocent people around the world.