"Sanctifying" marriage -- Thanks George

[kz_blogorambling]

I just wanted to let George Bush know that my husband and I are deeply grateful that he is going to make sure our marriage stays "sanctified." I could feel our union unraveling every time another homo got to use the word "marriage" to define his/her lifetime loving commitment to another person of the same sex.

We just feel so much *closer* now, knowing that he's going to bat for this crumbling institution we are a part of. Our union feels that much more sacred.

Thank you, George Bush, for recognizing that when two humans make a deep and abiding commitment to the love, care and wellbeing of a life partner, it isn't worthy of being called "marriage" unless we've taken a gender census of the couple and found that it's one of each.

I hope I don't need a sarcasm alert here.

Comments

[geobabe1.livejournal.com]

Amen, sistah.

[politzania.livejournal.com]

Well written, Cranky - my sentiments exactly.

If we get right down to it, my husband and I are violating the sanctity of marriage ourselves because we aren't "being fruitful & multiplying" :^P

There ain't a rolleyes big enough for the way I feel about this "arguement" against gay marriage.

[doulamel.livejournal.com]

If you did, I'd seriously question the person's ability to survive on a daily basis. ;) You kick ass! :)

[joeyhemlock.livejournal.com]

Plus, the rebuke of gay marriages makes it safer for our friends in the animal kingdom, since most of our heroes on the religious right agree that legalizing homosexual unions would bring us one step closer to legalized beastiality....

I'mma go look for a cite for that now.

[mrblue92.livejournal.com]

Tried to find the Ambrose Bierce version of "sancity", but only came up with "sacrament"...

SACRAMENT, n.
A solemn religious ceremony to which several degrees of authority and significance are attached. Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior sanctity. Some of the smaller sects have no sacraments at all -- for which mean economy they will indubitable be damned.

Once again, musical theatre provides us with wisdom

[juniper200.livejournal.com]

"Marriage is a sacrament, which is just a way to say
That a very private thing is done in a very public way"

--I Do, I Do

[persephone767.livejournal.com]

Y'know, in most cases, I'm pretty good at seeing the "other side" of an issue. I lose a lot of arguments because of it, in fact.

But the gay marraige issue is one of the few issues that I simply canNOT see the anti's point on. I really, really can't. I can't think of one damn thing WRONG with allowing gay couples to legally bind their unions the way straight people do.

I mean, at 16, gays can get driver's licences. At 18, they can vote, at 21 they can drink, and at 35 they can run for President. They work, they pay taxes, they spend money and all the other stuff that straight people do. What is the freakin' problem with allowing them the right to be married?

Is there something I'm missing here?

[crankyasanoldma.livejournal.com]

I say, if your marriage is such that its integrity or meaning is threatened by what gays do in their own personal lives, maybe, just maybe, you should go home and work on your own marriage, rather than stick your sanctimonious nose into other people's business.

[psyche0.livejournal.com]

Right on! Err...I mean I agree with what you say.

[mrblue92.livejournal.com]

If I might speak from past experience on this, the reasoning stems primarily from adherence to tradition and authority. If you're taught from childhood to believe a particular way of life is wrong, it's a rather difficult process to question that, especially if you link your very identity to your belief structure as many people do.

This does not excuse ignorance, of course, but it does make the roots a bit easier to understand. Well, at least it does for me, anyway... :)

[persephone767.livejournal.com]

That's waht it is with me too, Steve. Really. My parents raised me to be tolerant and accepting of things that are not the same as me. They used the fact that I have red hair as an example.

I have a very large family, but I and my grandfather were the only redheads in my family. My parents told me "you wouldn't want us to treat you badly or not like you or let you do things because you're a redheaded girl, would you? You look different than the rest of us. Does than mean that you are different?" Yes, this was more of a lesson about racial tolerance (because at the time, we had just moved to Ypsilanti, and I was seeing and spending time with black people--something I'd never done before). But the lesson applied to pretty much everyone and everything I encountered as I grew up.

And denying someone the same rights that I have just because they don't look or love or worship like me...it's a concept that I just can't get my head around. Makes no sense at all.

[theinfamousmom.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and those Bush boys are setting such a good example as parents, too. All that biblewhoppin' turned out sucha lovely buncha juvenile delinquents, dinnit?

[scavitto1.livejournal.com]

well done, bravo!