Couple Celebrates 80th Wedding Anniversary, Shares Secrets to Lasting Marriage
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Posted on 11/29/2012 3:43:30 PM PST by NYer
Couple Celebrates 80th Wedding Anniversary, Shares Secrets to Lasting Marriage
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Look at that photo!
He provably had just about no money (but gainfully employed or she wouldn’t have married him, and he managed to purchase white tie & tails (or otherwise come up with them - no drama). ditto her dress.
That picture is dignity itself.
It pays off, no?
We may presume that at some level of whatever human community there was that marriage was noted and approved of all the way back to the time men first began to think as men.
Marriage has its roots in biology.
Gay marriage has its roots in an interest in obtaining benefits that pertain to family life.
Seems to me we might look into modifying the way we extend any tax, insurance or inheritance benefits to families so that we disestablish the gay interest in such things ~ yet, we keep the benefits.
As an example, let's take the 3 generation family ~ the kids, the parents, the now partially dependent grandparents. Why should these folks be restricted from filing joint income tax filings, and simply dividing the income up among all members for that purpose ~ seems to me you could easily take a family with 3 income earners, 10 kids, and turn that into 13 units for purpose of equal taxation ~ at a very low level. Insurance and other elements of life with benefit differentials could be dealt with similarly.
The inmates are running the asylum. There is no rational basis for anything anymore.
I think that Christian Holy Matrimony seekers need to open up a Holy Matrimony Office, and with notary seals, offer marriage licenses to those who apply. ONCE THE COURT HOUSES STOP GETTING APPLICATIONS TO DO THESE PSEUDO MARRIAGES, THE GIMMICK WILL BE OFF, and we´ll get back to Original Design Weddings, A man who takes a bride as his wife. I say STOP paying taxes, to get a piece of paper that ain´t worth CRAP. Once they start giving licenses to anything, and everyone, their value plummeting, and we need to go OUTSIDE our civil governments, kind of like the Home Schoolers Associations.
Not even the Bible?
Not a bad idea at all.
That picture resembles the one of my folks. My dad will be 100 years old in March, so if my mom had lived, they would be celebrating their 75th wedding anniversary.
DOMA is unconstitutional. I expect it to go down in flames. Why?
The Federal Government doesn’t have the Constitutional authority, the power, to regulate “marriage”. It isn’t even mentioned.
I discovered the following and believe this to be a good suggestion. Maybe it is too liberating for some, but to me it makes sense.
“The colloquy on same-sex marriage ignores the most compelling alternative: abolish civil marriage. The classic way for a diverse polity to resolve contentious issues with minimum strife is to decentralize and privatize those issues. A world without civil marriage would be a world in which everyone can pursue his or her own vision of marriage without imposing those views on others.”
“Abolishing civil marriage would ultimately be good for marriage by ending the government’s legal monopoly defining the family. The resulting competition among alternative forms of marriage would strengthen the institution, just as competition among religions has made America a more religious society than societies with established churches.”
“Though not without its complications (including the problems of transition), abolishing civil marriage is the best alternative for our diverse society.”
Edward A. Zelinsky
Benjamin N. Cardozo
School of Law
Yeshiva University
New York
That works, when you're dealing with rational people. You can't use reason to argue someone out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place. Most folks who support homosexual marriage do so on the basis of what they believe as 'fairness'. It's an emotional position, not based on anything but feelings. THEY think they're logical, that they're basing their position on 'human rights', and that anyone who disagrees is a racist homophobe. There is simply no reasoning with them.
Evidently, the Bible, like the Constitution, is either subject to interpretation or is completely ignored by the inmates.
I don’t do YOPIOS.
Your
Own
Interpretation
Of
Scripture
LOL!
>> The force of law, then, will impose a fundamentally different understanding of those relationships
And the force of law will persecute those that prefer not to service homosexual behavior.
The govt does not belong in the marriage business.
Actually, biology defines the family ~ attempts to arbitrarily restructure families according to some sort of ideology invariably fail.
BIOLOGY
So, forget getting rid of Roe v. Wade? Is that correct?
The U.S.Constitution lacks the authority to define marriage. It’s not in the Constitution as a delegated federal power. Period.
The history of civil marriage law in this country existed explicity to outlaw interracial marriage. Gun control, too, was established to prevent “those people” from having guns. Our society doesn’t need such laws and, in fact, they are outside the authority of the U.S.Constitution’s authority, as is Roe v. Wade.
You cannot find in the Constitution authority for the Federal Government to “define” marriage or enforce any provision related to it. Such a power was never delegated. The 10th Amendment makes clear that whatever is not explicitly delegated to the Federal Government is not under Federal purview; it belongs to the states or the people individually.
It is the outrageious and judicial extreme-reach of Progressive activists, through our courts, which has put us in this predicament. Duplicating their behavior will not correct the situation but ultimately make it more difficult to correct. Defining marriage and restricting abortion belong at the state level.
Sure. I agree. And that is what I’m saying; it will survive - marriage between one man and one woman - because it has proven throughout time to be the finest and most effective marital arrangement of all.
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