The Sanctity of Marriage, Part III
by: RadicalRuss
Wed Nov 26, 2008 at 22:31:58 PM EST
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My cousins, however, are none too pleased about this situation (I've gotten the Idaho family news report tonight from my wife). My cousins are Christian types of the Born-Again™ Evangelical variety - not the rabid type, maybe a 45 guanolocons* on the 1-100 American Taliban Wingnut Scale, where Jimmy Carter is about a 2 and Fred Phelps is about a 98. Apparently they are distressed that my brother is not taking seriously the Sanctity of Marriage™.
These are the same cousins with whom I've had many heated email discussions regarding same-sex marriage rights and Prop 8. And it occurs to me that they've been fighting the wrong battle all this time. They've been opposing people who want to get married for the first time. Wouldn't the sanctity of marriage be better preserved by fighting for stricter divorce and remarriage laws? How about a "three strikes and you're out law"? How about every time five heterosexual couples get divorced, we let three gay couple get married? (There is a history in this country of 3/5ths compromises...)
I'd be against that, too, but at least it would be a little more logically consistent. If it were up to me, I'd really open it up - temp marriages, renewable marriages, gay marriages, lesbian marriages, multiple-partner shared child-rearing communal co-operative marriages, let 'er rip! - but I'm just a secular atheist radical progressive whose mind was warped by too many 1960's sci-fi novels.
Oh, and a secular atheist radical progressive going on eight years of marriage to my first and only wife.