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Time to Abolish Marriage
After years of debate, California has finally legalized gay marriage. While I have no problem with that per se, I do wonder why. Not why we’d make it legal, but why would gays even want to get married? Haven’t they seen the misery that married straight people go through? Don’t they realize that 50 percent of all marriages end up in divorce? ...
Posted to XX Factor by Bananafish on June 19, 2008
If we want people to take marriage seriously...
Let's make it available to everyone. As a woman in my twenties, I find it hard to have respect for the idea of marriage, because it doesn't seem to have any bearing on whether people stay committed to each other. I see single-sex couples who are barred from getting married staying together for life, and I see people my own age who have already ...
Posted to The Best Policy by kellekms on March 23, 2008