The desecration of marraige

[giza]

Conservatives just love to complain about same-sex marriages because they say it would "desecrate the institution of marriage". Well, judging from this article on CNN, they don't need our help to make marriage a joke since heterosexual couples are doing that well enough on their own. Here are some quotes from the article:

Britney Spears' two-day-old marriage to a childhood friend was dissolved Monday shortly after the pop superstar filed for an annulment, claiming she didn't fully understand what she was doing when she got hitched on the spur of the moment.

I guess "'till death do us part" is a bit hard to comphrehend these days, huh. Then there was this:

"It was just crazy, man," the 22-year-old told "Access Hollywood" in an interview at his home Monday morning. "And we were just looking at each other and said, 'Let's do something wild, crazy. Let's go get married, just for the hell of it.' "

According to the petition, "Before entering into the marriage the plaintiff and defendant did not know each other's likes and dislikes, each other's desires to have or not have children, and each other's desires as to state of residency. Upon learning of each other's desires, they are so incompatible that there was a want of understanding of each other's actions in entering into this marriage."

Wow. Just... wow. That blows my mind how someone can up and decided to get married with no planning whatsoever. I've seen PHBs that have more foresight than that!

I shouldn't be allowed to have this much fun on Mondays!

Comments

[was1.livejournal.com]

Of course you could use the trend of poorly-planned mariages to argue for not allowing divorce or forcing people to have a waiting period before getting married, to "fix marriage." Not that I recomend that, just saying how some people might try and save us from ourselves.

I find the idea that gay marriages would threaten traditional marriages and straight couples quite laughable. Do they think that all these straight guys are going to run off and start dating guys as soon as it was allowed? Silly.

I think the reason for the debate over it is because there are so many differtn viewpoints on marriage: is it a religious institution, a social institution, is it only for having children, etc? I wonder if childless couples (who are that way by choice) are just as bad as homosexual unions in some people's eyes?

[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

It's so weird watching the no-gay-marriage types dance around the issues like that.

"Gays should not be allowed to marry because they can't have kids, and the purpose of marriage is to raise kids! Um, it's okay for couples to remain childless, though, because they could have children if they wanted... and, um, it's also okay for infertile couples to marry, because, um... gimme a minute..."

[bikerwalla.livejournal.com]

"it's preposterous to think that gay people would want to marry! they have such wild promiscuous lifestyles anyway! It's just a slap in the face to the rest of us to think that THEY would ever want to settle down!"

"Maybe because people like you won't let them settle down."

"um... gimme a minute..."

[silver-huskey.livejournal.com]

Your entry, minus the laughable Britney Spears stuff, reminds me of an editoral I saw in the Daily News. If I wasn't so lazy, I'd go look it up at phillynews.com. ^_^;

[mannu.livejournal.com]

I read about the Britney Spears bit in a local newspaper. And here I am, waiting to marry the love of my life--waiting since the past 10 years for the "right time" :-)

I guess it's the rich and grown up who can afford to screw up their marriages, while the lower classes tend to take their marriages a lot more seriously. It's an uninformed opinion though; I might be wrong!

[giza.livejournal.com]

>And here I am, waiting to marry the love of my life--waiting since the past 10
>years for the "right time" :-)

None of us are getting any younger, and we only have so much time on this earth together. Go propose already! :-)

[mannu.livejournal.com]

Waiting to get just a little richer ;-)