Posted On: July 12, 2006, 5:58 pm CDT

Posted By: Wheels

"The reason for the high divorce rate is no fault divorce. In other words, state intervention into the institution of marriage sent divorce rates through the roof. Now you want more state intervention into the very nature of the institution. Why would you expect a postitive result?"

No-fault divorce is not what I am talking about, but if you want to fill your response with definitions, let me throw one out there: "A marriage is a relationship between or among individuals, usually recognized by civil authority and/or bound by the religious beliefs of the participants. The fact that marriage often has the dual nature of a binding legal contract plus a moral promise, can make it difficult to characterize." That is from Wikipedia, a user-edited forum for the sharing of knowledge. In other words, marriage is generally defined as "a relationship between or among individuals". Hmm..not very gender-specific, is it?

"And thanks for declaring that you support the "marriage" of three women, or three men for that matter, demonstrating a low regard for marriage which was confirmed by your subsequent remarks."

You are welcome, I felt comfortable enough with my opinion to share it here, and I thank you for welcoming it. Your subsequent remarks, however, have only confirmed my low regard for organized religion and the hatred it generates towards the ones whose thoughts and ideas don't fit the "norm". Do you also despise Darwin and somehow believe dinosaurs were on the Ark? But, I digress, that isn't relevant here.

"As for your example of a wife beating child molester: when something is abused, the remedy is not its abolition but a emre corrective. (We used to whip wife beaters in Maryland, well into the 1960's.) Your argument seems to be, "Joe beats his wife, so let Sally, Liz, and Deb all get married." Does that sound logical?"

No, that doesn't sound logical, good thing it isn't my argument. My argument is that the institution of marriage is so far gone, I'm suprised people still care about who marries who anymore.

Personally, I'd rather people not try to veil the elimination of each others rights by not discouraging the labeling of a bill as the "Gay Marriage Bill", like they did here in Michigan. Really, it took away the rights of hetero and homo couples alike. But again, I digress.

Take it away, Pat.