Calling all married people
Posted on
October 15, 2008 by
Gideon
Has your marriage gotten worse since Monday? Do you somehow feel “less” married? Husband/wife refusing to act “spous-y”? Please share if you answered yes to any of the questions.
I am wondering if any of the people that were so worried about letting same sex couples get married are considering working on abolishing marriage if it really was such an abomination to allow these equal rights?
Seriously? I am more interested in how some churches are going to react to the decision and, though I have read the part that gives them equal rights, I have not read anything on the legal obligations of churches, if any?
I think that in Canada they left it up to churches to decide if they would perform marriages. And there was always the JoP route.
Thanks for the comment!
Churches have no legal obligation – they are free to marry whomever they choose.
Yep, marriage definitely worse since Monday.
Thanks for playing
Just about as bad as it could be. Funny you should ask. July 2006 and Christmas 2001 may have been worse but I doubt it.
Why?
Huh?
Not yet, but it’s only Friday!
It’s horrible. (Since we used to live in Connecticut, many years ago, my wife and I were married there.)
Domestic partners in Vermont? Well, we didn’t have a lot to do with Vermont. New Jersey giving same-sex couples marrying rights but letting their lege call it something else if they want to? No problem. Massachusetts? Well, since Legal Seafoods isn’t what it used to be, we can just skip there, and don’t get me started on California.
But Connecticut? That was too much.
Now, our marriage has been rendered utterly worthless and pointless. I don’t want to get into details, but the sex is nonexistent, since we’re both haunted by the possibility that, back in New Haven, non-mixed-gender couples might perhaps be having sex at the same time — while having a piece of paper from the state that says that they’re married.
Every moment of friendship and intimacy, ever shared memory, public and private, over thirty years, reduced to utter meaningless by men and women in black robes.
You’ve got issues…
Err . . . you did realize I was kidding, didn’t you?
Lol. Yes, I’m aware. I was just trying to be funny in return. Guess it didn’t work.
An anonymous email correspondent, by the way, didn’t get it, and encouraged me to work hard to fight the injustice so that other marriages won’t be so damaged. I don’t think he/she was kidding.
No, things between the significant other and me are still good, but the family dog is looking particularly fetching today…
HAH!
The answer for me is yes.
Have you seen the Red Sox-Rays series? It’s left me feeling less husbandly.
Or I mean it has. This is what happens when you are looking at statutes on benefit assessment appeals after sitting through a painful 3.5 hour depo and attempt to blog.
You lost me at “happens”…
Yeah it has, since my wife and I got married totally as an in-your-face slam at gay people!
Well, now that you ask…yes. But not because of some court decision that allows everyone to fight with their lawfully wedded spouse during a full moon cycle. No, that’s not it.
I just blame it on the moon.
As you know, California has an initiative on the ballot intended to ban gay marriage. I am fighting hard with my mouth and my money to see it defeated.
I’d be surprised if you weren’t! We’ve got something similar coming up – a call for a Constitutional convention by the anti-gay marriage lobby.
A couple of years ago the Daily Show had a hilarious take on how gay marriage affected Massachusetts. Here’s the link.
The link on my earlier comment isn’t working. Here is the Url: http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=125331&title=Mass.-Hysteria