The Marriage Issue

[weaktwos]

"We know now which senators are for traditional marriage and which ones are not, and by November so will voters in every state," said Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council. "This fight has just begun."

Just what hell is a traditional marriage, when 50% of marriages fail, and people are no stranger single parent households or families with half-siblings and step siblings?

What is so traditional about heterosexual partnerships when certain couples end up getting divorced when one of the marital complains is that the husband wanted to go to sex clubs and engage in public sex. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but is that traditional?

Comments

[jareth-gk.livejournal.com]

Coming from a person that has only a broken marriage to look back on. Your very much right. There is nothing traditional about marriage these days.

And men are often the culprits, but lets not forget that it can work the other way around too. Like so many things... it can go both ways.

x Jeremy M.

[weaktwos.livejournal.com]

I wasn't quite speaking in generalizations. I was using an example, and didn't have time to go through all the possible scenarios.

I didn't suggest it's all men's faults. There's a team effort among the couples. Couples do a lot together, including hose up a relationship. And yes, either gender commits infidelities that can send trust up in bitter green flames.

I remember a chorus from a song of a local band here:

"Let me ruin your life,
(I want to make you hate life)
Let me ruin your life,
(I want to make you suffer!)
...because you're the love of my life

[jareth-gk.livejournal.com]

Or maybe the other grand saying:
"You only hurt... the ones you love..." :P

I think I understood your generalization, but for some reason I thought that may bear mentioning. Maybe I am a bit sensitive. Who knows.

Kinda funny to think of it that way. The last big thing me and my wife worked on together was to screw up our relationship. Heh. True, but also darkly humorous in a way. :P :)

x Jeremy M.

[imlac.livejournal.com]

Whenever I heard a politico talk about how they support "traditional marriage" I want to ask them "You mean you support women being treated as property, not being allowed to divorce their husbands, minorities not being allowed to marry, not allowing a person of one race to marry a person of another, and husbands being legally allowed to beat (and sometimes kill) their wives? Because thourghout most of history that's what marriage 'traditionally' has been."