Fun back home, huh?
I read the news today, and the impression keeps getting stronger:
Anyone who claims to be a staunch defender of "traditional American family values"? Even odds at this point that he (and all too often it's a "he") wouldn't recognize said values if they walked up to him and clocked him in the head with a tire iron.
I mean, I may not be all that well versed in traditional ceremonial and religious stuff, but doesn't a marriage ceremony have, as a fundamental part of the proceedings, an oath to be faithful to the one you're joining with in marriage? You know, promise before the witnesses, promising to the Almighty, stake your life, your fortune, and your sacred honor to the pledge, that sort of thing?
Or is tossing aside all that because you can't keep your libido in check a traditional American value in its own right? Because God knows I've seen enough of that, first-hand as well as in the newspapers.
How about this? New rule: if you're not keeping the promise you made when you walked down the aisle, you don't get to be judgmental about people who have a different attitude towards what you call traditional values. And if you implode your own marriage because you think that promise didn't count, then you need to own up, fess up, and shut up. Blaming society? Not going to cut it. Not with me.
And one more thing: you think that gay marriage is an affront to tradition? I'll lay down cash money (dollars or euros, depending on how the exchange rates look in the next hour) that the people you're trying to relegate to second-class status will, by a huge margin, take those oaths seriously - a lot more than someone who appears to view them as a mere rite of passage, to be ignored at his convenience. Someone who has to fight for a right is probably not going to take it for granted, after all. (Doesn't matter that I'm straight as a plumb line; I'm a strong believer that relegating people to second-class status is just begging for trouble.)
Anyone who claims to be a staunch defender of "traditional American family values"? Even odds at this point that he (and all too often it's a "he") wouldn't recognize said values if they walked up to him and clocked him in the head with a tire iron.
I mean, I may not be all that well versed in traditional ceremonial and religious stuff, but doesn't a marriage ceremony have, as a fundamental part of the proceedings, an oath to be faithful to the one you're joining with in marriage? You know, promise before the witnesses, promising to the Almighty, stake your life, your fortune, and your sacred honor to the pledge, that sort of thing?
Or is tossing aside all that because you can't keep your libido in check a traditional American value in its own right? Because God knows I've seen enough of that, first-hand as well as in the newspapers.
How about this? New rule: if you're not keeping the promise you made when you walked down the aisle, you don't get to be judgmental about people who have a different attitude towards what you call traditional values. And if you implode your own marriage because you think that promise didn't count, then you need to own up, fess up, and shut up. Blaming society? Not going to cut it. Not with me.
And one more thing: you think that gay marriage is an affront to tradition? I'll lay down cash money (dollars or euros, depending on how the exchange rates look in the next hour) that the people you're trying to relegate to second-class status will, by a huge margin, take those oaths seriously - a lot more than someone who appears to view them as a mere rite of passage, to be ignored at his convenience. Someone who has to fight for a right is probably not going to take it for granted, after all. (Doesn't matter that I'm straight as a plumb line; I'm a strong believer that relegating people to second-class status is just begging for trouble.)