03-08-2004, 03:12 PM
Quote:If your attitude about marriage is really this casual, you don't deserve the right to get married even if you were "straight". This is about a sacred bond, a lifelong commitment to a loving relationship, a joining of families and the foundation of a new one. This institution does not deserve to be held hostage over healthcare rights and joint tax returns. If the political climate does change and you get the right to marry whomever you choose, I hope you will take that institution seriously and make a commitment to someone you will be willing to spend the rest of your life with.
And if the government chooses to remove all legal implications of marriage and handle each issue (guardianship, tax issues, health care, joint ownership of property) separately, then I would have no problem with you getting your "slice of the cake". Unfortunately though, that's not how this issue is going to play out, and I'm more concerned with the future of the sacred institution than I am with getting good deals on health care.
The "sacred institution" as you call it, has everything to do with religion. Marriage does not (I got married in my city's townhall) and should also not. Marriage is for me nothing sacred, it just the commitment from me and my wife to each other. The church does not have anything to do with the state, the state does not tell you what religion you have to have. So the president should mind his own business in this case, he has no right whatsoever to block any marriage. Even the judges tell him this. If anyone thinks his marriage is worth less because also gay people can get married, than that is his own problem.
Maybe the mormons don't like the way you (in general) do it because the think you should marry more wives, but do you think they have the right to force you to marry another wife?) :unsure: