Yeah. And you know, the whole "marriage" issue has got me thinking:
If someone who's been divorced six times can get "married", if Kim Kardashian can be married for one month or whatever, and if Britney Spears can be married for twenty-four hours or whatever to some guy, then how meaningful is marriage, anymore?
Expanding the definition of marriage does NOT strengthen the institution of marriage. If you want to strengthen the institution of marriage, then it needs to be *harder* to get married and *harder* to get divorced, not easier.
If we really wanted to protect and bolster the value of marriage, we'd make it harder to get divorced, and maybe that would make people think twice before entering into a more binding contract.
TBH, if I were in a serious relationship right now and contemplating getting married, I think I'd just have a personal, non-legal, purely symbolic ceremony.
If the law has decided that two men are a "marriage" or two women are a "marriage" or somebody's fifth wedding is a "marriage", why would I want to participate in that institution?
Why would I want to place myself in the same category with Elizabeth Taylor or Kim Kardashian or a homosexual relationship?
Marriage is becoming meaningless.
EDIT: *harder to get divorced except in cases where there's something clearly unacceptable like physical abuse or infidelity, obviously...
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If someone who's been divorced six times can get "married", if Kim Kardashian can be married for one month or whatever, and if Britney Spears can be married for twenty-four hours or whatever to some guy, then how meaningful is marriage, anymore?
Expanding the definition of marriage does NOT strengthen the institution of marriage. If you want to strengthen the institution of marriage, then it needs to be *harder* to get married and *harder* to get divorced, not easier.
If we really wanted to protect and bolster the value of marriage, we'd make it harder to get divorced, and maybe that would make people think twice before entering into a more binding contract.
TBH, if I were in a serious relationship right now and contemplating getting married, I think I'd just have a personal, non-legal, purely symbolic ceremony.
If the law has decided that two men are a "marriage" or two women are a "marriage" or somebody's fifth wedding is a "marriage", why would I want to participate in that institution?
Why would I want to place myself in the same category with Elizabeth Taylor or Kim Kardashian or a homosexual relationship?
Marriage is becoming meaningless.
EDIT: *harder to get divorced except in cases where there's something clearly unacceptable like physical abuse or infidelity, obviously...