Calling all married people
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about 3 years ago
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.
about 3 years ago
Thanks for the comment!
Churches have no legal obligation – they are free to marry whomever they choose.
about 3 years ago
Yep, marriage definitely worse since Monday.
about 3 years ago
Thanks for playing
about 3 years ago
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?
about 3 years ago
Huh?
about 3 years ago
Not yet, but it’s only Friday!
about 3 years ago
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.
about 3 years ago
You’ve got issues…
about 3 years ago
Err . . . you did realize I was kidding, didn’t you?
about 3 years ago
Lol. Yes, I’m aware. I was just trying to be funny in return. Guess it didn’t work.
about 3 years ago
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.
about 3 years ago
No, things between the significant other and me are still good, but the family dog is looking particularly fetching today…
about 3 years ago
HAH!
about 3 years ago
The answer for me is yes.
Have you seen the Red Sox-Rays series? It’s left me feeling less husbandly.
about 3 years ago
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.
about 3 years ago
You lost me at “happens”…
about 3 years ago
Yeah it has, since my wife and I got married totally as an in-your-face slam at gay people!
about 3 years ago
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.
about 3 years ago
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.
about 3 years ago
A couple of years ago the Daily Show had a hilarious take on how gay marriage affected Massachusetts. Here’s the link.
about 3 years ago
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