March 26, 2013

  • If the Supreme Court upholds equality, then the outcome will be 9 -0 in favor of Gay Marriage and putting the Defense of Marriage Act where it belongs, i.e., in the bottom of the outhouse.

    I believe Clarence Thomas is the only sitting justice who has been divorced and re-married. He is the one justice who can define traditional marriages in practical American terms - such serial monogamy, the divorce loophole, simply living together, committing adultry, fucking around with one's female staff, and the like.

    None of the justices are qualified to speak about traditional marriage. They are all religious folks - 6 Roman Catholics, two Jews and a Protestant.

    Religious folks have a jaundicd eye. Much as Antonin Scalia can't understand English when he reads the constitition, none of the justices can read the bible without assuming the bible says something that it clearly does not say.

    We have no record that God, the pedophile rapist, wed the teenager, Mary. We know she produced an illegitimate child, Jesus. His brothers and sister may have come from a union between Mary and Joseph, but we don't know when, where or IF those two were married.

    One gospel speaks of Mary as the wife of Joseph, but what does that mean? Study Genesis, and a man takes a woman and both leave their family, and the woman is called by the title, wife. Where is the marriage? The Rabbi or Priest? The certificate? NO WHERE. What we now call traditional marriage includes such sanctions, proclamations, vows, fees - DON'T FORGET THE EFFING FEES!

    Traditional marriage in America must always allow for  TRADITIONAL DIVORCE and the possibility TRADITIONAL RE-MARRIAGE.

    Traditional marraiges through the ages have most often had different rules for royalty. The Roman Catholic Chirch is a kind of royalty, with at least one married pope and one illegitimate child of a pope being elected later to the papacy. How many infants and pre-teen girls princesses were marriedto some king to secure politcal alliances, retain royal lands, and power? Henry VIII, Roman Catholic Henry, bolted the church so he could get rid of one wife and take aother, and began his own church in the process. That's one hell of a traditional marriage stance.

    And of course, arrogant as our declining nation and people are, we never consider that while we are just 320 million out of 7 billion, we are the only folks to have traditional marriages, or the right to say what constitutes a traditional marriage. We don't teach or own history, so why would we look at other cultures? Oops. Those others cultures are US, they are in our melting pot. We have Hindus. We have Muslims. We are made up of people who have their own cultural definitions of things such as marriage. Our one common link is that we want equality under law.