The timeless meaning of marriage

The Boston Globe ^ | 11/16/2003 | Jeff Jacoby

[Radix]

WHEN THE New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled in a divorce case recently that a married woman who had a lesbian affair had not committed adultery in the eyes of the law, one disappointed party was GLAD, the Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders. In an amicus brief, GLAD had taken the side of the betrayed husband, who wanted to be divorced from his wife not on the neutral grounds of "irreconcilable differences," but on the specific fault ground of adultery.

[Radix]

Two comments.

1) The ruling concerning the establishment gay marriage here, by the Massachusetts Court is long overdue. The polls are telling the Judiciary, and the Politicians, not to do it. There is a real battle, behind the scenes, I am certain.

2) Gay marriage is an attempt at controlling language and at changing the meaning of words. When you change the meaning of words, you control the thinking. That is what I see here, an attempt at mind control. It is truly Orwellian!

[spodefly]

Jeff Jacoby has got to be a lonely man in the offices of The Boston Globe.

[anniegetyourgun]

"Democratic presidential hopeful Carol Moseley Braun put it succinctly at a candidates' forum in Oklahoma: "I don't see any difference between interracial marriages and same sex marriages."

And I don't see the difference between Carol Moseley Braun and an eggplant.

[Tabi Katz]

GLAD exists to defend the legal interests of gays and lesbians, so why didn't it support the women's wish not to have their same-sex affair legally stigmatized as "adultery?"

Apparently they are less concerned with protecting the rights of gays and lesbians than they are with promoting the gay and lesbian agenda.

[Tabi Katz]

And I don't see the difference between Carol Moseley Braun and an eggplant.

I do. The eggplant is smarter.

[anniegetyourgun]

You have a point there. It's also better looking.

[Tabi Katz]

"You have a point there. It's also better looking."

Very true!

[Tax-chick]

It's also better looking.

And more useful, and a better conversationalist. Test question: Would you rather make a cross-country drive with Carol Mosely Braun, or with an eggplant?

[nothingnew]

This reminds me very much of the effort by conservatives to strategically attack abortion by attempting to codify the fetus as a person.

pfffft!Aren't you glad you're Mom knew the code?

FMCDH

[anniegetyourgun]

Why, of course it would be easier to swing an eggplant for a long drive down the fairway, landing squarely on the green.

Did I pass? ; ]

[Radix]

http://www.jackinworld.com/library/articles/onan.html

 

I am not posting this here because I espouse it. It is simply that I did a search, and I found this particular article linked here. I have never been to the site before, and I have only read a portion of it all.

 

 

"..the Israelites developed many laws that helped guarantee a healthy birth rate. Much to the dismay of gay people today, the Israelites called homosexuality an abomination, punishable by death, because no offspring could result (and also because other "pagan" nations had a much healthier tolerance for it).."

[Tax-chick]

LOL! And you could take what was left and make baba-ghanoush!

Thanks for the image - I think we all needed some humor after the Louisiana election :-(.

[I still care]

Bill O'Reilly was talking about this the other night. He said that the chief justice was trying to swing a vote her way (for gay marraige) and the vote was 5-4. They also have something pending to outlaw gay marriage and it seems she is trying to wait until the legislature is out of session.... I didn't catch the whole drift but that is the essence.

[William Terrell]

Democratic presidential hopeful Carol Moseley Braun put it succinctly at a candidates' forum in Oklahoma: "I don't see any difference between interracial marriages and same sex marriages."

Carol Moseley Braun doesn't see any difference because she is a moron, not because there isn't a difference.

Gays and lesbians must be treated with dignity and compassion. . .

If we are to treat them with dignity and compasson, we shouldn't use euphremisms. Call them what they are, homosexuals.

[Campion]

And I don't see the difference between Carol Moseley Braun and an eggplant.

In particular, I see absolutely no difference between marrying Carol Moseley Braun and marrying an eggplant. Both appear to be vegetables, do they not? Prohibiting human-vegetable marriage is just wrong, and sounds like something the KKK would endorse.

[Cindy]

International Healing Foundation

[goldstategop]

If gays believe in fidelity, then their sentiment about it should match their rhetoric. That is if they believe same sex marriage is more than about dignifying what most people consider a perverted definition of getting together in bed. If they don't, then Jeff Jacoby's right; true marriage is about joining opposites together than adding like to like in a life-long union.

[xzins]

If the timeless definition of marriage is going to be legally changed, the change should come from lawmakers -- not from judges with no mandate to legislate from the bench.

How can one change the definition of "marriage?" Why not change the definition of "tree?" Or of "dog?" Or of "sun?"

When speaking of the unique, long-term relationship of male/female one requires a word because the relationship itself is unlike any other in the differences it brings together and in what it makes procreatively possible.

If any society attempts to dilute the meaning the word that is used to describe the above, then that society will come up with another word that uniquely deals with the male/female uniting. It is so different that it requires its own word.