A lot of folks this morning yapping away over Perry and Marriage. Well, hell. I wouldn’t discount a good candidate because of disagreeing with him on non-national issues, but other people do, I don’t care. “I won’t vote for him because he’s one of those GOD GUYS!” is how we get into these messes in the first place. But voting isn’t gonna change any of this anyway. <\/p>\n
Getting the FedGov out of the marriage business is a powerfully good idea. Nobody fucking knows why, either, but I’m going to tell you so you know. <\/p>\n
Commitment is when people have strong feelings for one another and each makes an individual decision to follow a set of rules that regard their relationship with that person.<\/p>\n
There is no church nor government agency nor governing body that can make that commitment for you, and the best they can do is recognize it legally. Nor does a priest saying “I now pronounce..” magically confer fealty where none exists before.<\/p>\n
1: There should be no need to recognize that commitment legally. A person should be able to designate any partner he or she wants as the person responsible for\/to them, and the .gov should mind it’s own business.
\n2: A church ceremony is as meaningless as a civil one except to the individuals involved. Attaching legal meaing to the one is as ignorant as attaching religious meaning to the other. Stop it. <\/p>\n
Christ, people. Nobody gets it. I should just start slapping everyone. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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