Ol' Bob is finally growing up, I see. Well, better late than never!
Interesting, no?
Geldof also argues that too much emphasis is placed on the ephemeral attractions of the wedding day, without thought for the real meaning of the marriage vow.
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Powerful stuff.
“Why is it you cannot support the institution of marriage without sounding terrifically old-fashioned or right-wing? It’s wrong.
Well, it's old-fashioned if you're talking about hetero marriage; it's cool if you're talking about homo marriage.
Good for you Bob. Your heart was in the right place and your head followed.
The easy-out of no-fault divorce, or divorce on demand must be stopped! Not only is no-fault morally wrong, but it is UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Where else can the plaintiff win EVERY time whether or not they are in the wrong?
Take a look at what goes on in family courts. The person wanting to break the "contract" (marriage) is usually the one who files for divorce. They are usually committing adultery and it is known to the court. Yet, the court will grant the divorce every time based only upon the word of the party wanting to terminate the marriage. The divorce is a done deal the minute the papers are filed. What remains is to divide the assets and the children. 1st, 4th, 9th and 14th amendment rights of the respondent/defendant and the children are ignored. The adultery of the offending spouse is ignored.
Try to fight it and you will be punished by the court in terms of property, custody, support - in any way the black robed thug sitting on the bench decides. My husband stole our community property savings - more than $250,000 - and built a house for his whore. The two of them ran up more than $136,000 in credit card debt during the year we were fighting it out in court. He came to court claiming to be virtually penniless and broke because of family bills. Even though we had evidence that these were not family bills - most were for travel and things for their home - the judge ordered my home to be sold to settle their credit card debt. (This particular judge should have not been sitting on the bench as it was proven by a taped telephone conversation that she had direct conversations with a woman in another case.) She didn't order the sale of his home to settle his debts. I almost went to jail for contempt of the order to sell the home and had to file a writ of mandamus against the judge. If I had gone to jail, the state would have taken my children since their father didn't want them. I can tell you that finding out about his cheating and lies was bad, but what they did to us (me and the kids) in court was worse.
And, of course, that isn't even taking into account the rapidly rising numbers of cohabitating couples who never bother to marry at all, or single parents who produce multiple offspring with multiple partners without even a pretense of a relationship with the sperm/egg donor. It's not uncommon to run across women who have children and don't even know their fathers' names. That in no way excuses the fathers who go around making like Johnny Appleseed, planting their seed in any available receptacle.
I deal with the products of such irresponsibility every day, and it is tragic. We are trying to prop up this country on a crumbling foundation built upon the sand, where even the components are defective or decayed. It won't work.
Why can't you defend marriage without sound right-wing? That's easy: because the Left is waging an all-out war to abolish marriage.
For the same reason you can not bring up G-d or bedrock faith without sounding right-wing or old fashioned. The left has rejected these positions for a "I am the center of the universe" mentality. It isn't so much that the right embraced those values as they have been forced into the position of keeping the left from destroying them.
It might not have been always so but it is now.
Geldof has courage.
?This marriage stuff is a serious thing. It is not to be entered into and dissolved on a whim and to make light of it is a profound mistake. Yet that is precisely what the law allows us and encourages us to do. ?
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Well DuH!!
Another Leftist's sees the Light!!
Sometimes age DOES bring wisdom!
The article leaves out his notable performance as the character "Pink" in the film version of Pink Floyd's "The Wall," in which (among other things) he gets to shave off all his body hair and don the persona of a neo-fascist rock-star, replete with goose-stepping minions in black quasi-Nazi regalia, in the unforgetable "In the Flesh":
Pink Floyd
In The Flesh
So ya thought ya might like to go to the show. To feel the warm thrill of confusion, that space cadet glow. I got me some bad news for you, Sunshine. Pink isn't well, he stayed back at the hotel, And he sent us along as a surrugate band. We're gonna find out where you fans really stand. Are there any queers in the theatre tonight? Get 'em up against the wall. -- 'Gainst the wall! And that one in the spotlight, he don't look right to me. Get him up against the wall. -- 'Gainst the wall! And that one looks Jewish, and that one's a coon. Who let all this riffraff into the room? There's one smoking a joint, and another with spots! If I had my way I'd have all of ya shot.
Excellent article, thanks for posting it.
Spoken from someone who knows all too well.....Prayers for Sir Geldolf and his extended family.
“I know it’s uncool, and I truly have no desire to cause upset or offence by saying this, but the truth of every study is clear: dual-parent upbringing produces healthier, better educated children. That’s it.”
Is it just me or is this a no-brainer? I mean, doesn't it go waaaayyy back to the Japanese philosophy of yin and yang?