Why I support SSM, for my conservative friends.
On my last post, a lot of people made the completely valid point that SSM is a serious erosion of the institution of marriage. Specifically, it moves the focus of the institution from procreation and continuity of inheritance and makes the institution of marriage about "love". Romantic "Love" being a notably fickle beast, one can reliably predict
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No good options, so pick the least bad one. That's SSM.
That's America, really, when you look at history. We've always been inefficient, whacking it together any way that works because we'd seen what attempts at “efficiency” had produced and the cure is far worse than the disease. [The 20th century had no shortage of examples, thanks to socialism in its various malign forms. Yeah, I gotcher plan right here…]
That's why I favor same-sex marriage despite being a Republican - because I'm a Goldwater Republican, a Reagan Republican, and I believe that people should mind their own business and be free to do so.
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On the other hand, the institution of ten thousand years is not overthrown
in a day, even by unelected unaccountable democracy-short-circuiting
court order - I have a lesbian friend who is “married” to the woman
she's living with, and I say it that way (tho' never to her!) because I see
it that way, as make-believe, not real grown-up milepost-in-life marriage.
[I mistyped that male-believe, which is not wrong, really; she
refers to this woman as her “wife,” so what does that make her?]
The high “divorce” rate you mention will only foster that impression, as
being merely the play-acting of children whose adolescent rebellion is now
coerced into universal acceptance by court order, but is itself still
immature.
[Anne Heche, the actress, was a foot-stomping lesbian, “loud and proud,”
ever so Politically Correct, “partnered” with comedienne Ellen DeGeneres -
and then she grew up (more or less), married and had children. Funny
how that happens.]
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it that way, as make-believe, not real grown-up milepost-in-life marriage.
I think this will happen a lot more than SS marriage folks will want.
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Tell that to the people who've lost their jobs/businesses due the bullying of the Rainbow Crowd.
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Seems rather a pointless undertaking.
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