Rings as talismen

[chesh]

There are definitely days when I can understand the whole "homosexual marriage threatens heterosexual marriage" deal. It's magical thinking, illogical but comforting. It needs to be awesome and special for the spell to work. When relationships fall apart and I don't know why and I can't help and I can't fix things, it makes me want this ring to be

Comments

[chesh]

Well, I would assume that if crazy sky dood has issues with girls loving girls, then letting girls put the special magic rings on the fingers of other girls will make sky dood mad, whereupon he will revoke magic ring privileges for everybody and all married couples will immediately start fighting and get divorced

[chesh]

Or house-ownership! That's n=3 of n=3!
Then again, this is more likely another signal of long-term workability, not cause.

[cutefuzzysatan]

As a side note, I'm trying to discern the magical talisman that actually works in the >2 yr time frame. In the running are broom-jumping, having the bride being incredibly ill at the wedding, indian cuisine, and getting married outside. (n=1, n=1, n=1 and n=1, respectively, out of a total n=3). More data as it comes in ;)

Here's some more data - frequent beating each other up outside the home and in public helps prevent beating each other up inside the home. Works for us!

[chesh]

Or in short, it's that they're both tied up in magical thinking.
For me: ring = magic! No, wait, shit!
For them: special club blessed by sky dude = magic! Hey, stop using our word, it's our club, we had it first, you're gonna break it!