Posted on 08/07/2005 7:42:51 PM PDT by Gomez
WHAT'S LOVE got to do with it?
Bill Dalrymple, 56, and best friend Bryan Pinn, 65, have decided to take the plunge and try out the new same-sex marriage legislation with a twist -- they're straight men.
"I think it's a hoot," Pinn said.
The proposal came last Monday at a Toronto bar amid shock and laughter from their friends. But the two -- both of whom were previously married and both of whom are looking for a good woman to love -- insist that after the humour subsided, a real issue lies at the heart of it all.
"There are significant tax implications that we don't think the government has thought through," Pinn said.
Dalrymple has been to see a lawyer already and there are no laws in marriage that define sexual preference.
'STAY OUT OF THE BEDROOMS'
They want to shed light on the widespread financial implications of the new legislation and are willing to take it all the way.
There are obvious tax benefits to marriage, they said, but insisted they don't want their nuptials to insult gays and lesbians.
"I disagree with the government getting involved with what people should and shouldn't do," Dalrymple said. "Stay out of the bedrooms."
Words of warning came from Toronto lawyer Bruce Walker, a gay and lesbian rights activist.
"Generally speaking, marriage should be for love," he said. "People who don't marry for love will find themselves in trouble."
Walker isn't personally insulted by the planned Pinn-Dalrymple union because he believes in personal freedoms and rights.
"If someone wants to do something foolish, let them do it," he said.
As for wedding plans, Pinn and Dalrymple haven't set a date.
Radio host Michael Medved often debates this topic with leftist guests and callers. His favorite example is the one about his mother and her sister. They lived together for 30 years, did everything together, ran a business together, they were the best of friends. He always asks the homo activists why his mother and aunt shouldn't have had access to same-sex partner benefits and/or marriage? They loved one another dearly and shared a life together.
The activists and leftists never, NEVER have a good answer. They just want to dismiss it as an illegitimate question. But it isn't. I could certainly see widows/widowers or lifelong single people deciding to make a life together, live in the same home, share income, run a business, etc. It happens quite frequently. And why SHOULDN'T they be able to get "same-sex married"?
LOL!
God created marriage to serve as a bond between two people (male and female) where the two shall leave their family and cleave together to become one new creation. This isn't purely metaphorical.
It was also created to model the love of Christ and His church through mutual submission and love "as a verb". I.e. to "die to self" and serve the other.
Serving a "feeling" as arbitrary and maleable as "love" is not submission, is not sacrifice, and is not truly loving the other. When people only marry and stay together because it "feels good", they are serving THEMSELVES, not their spouse.
Loving another means doing what is in his/her best interests even when we don't feel like it. Even when he/she doesn't deserve it.
Children may or may not result - that is up to free will and God's plan, as well. Although we are told that children are always a blessing to be desired. Regardless, the fact remains that a heterosexual marriage is the healthiest place for children on every level.
We live in a fallen world where God's purposes have been twisted and destroyed. We can't undo or prevent sin, but at the very least we can choose not to legislate it into acceptability.
Because it's all about sodomy. And they don't want to admit it.
I'd swear I was Queen Elizabeth herself or Napoleon if need be as long as it got me a tax cut.
When I saw "queer aisle," I had mental images of "the Barbie Doll aisle" at Wal-Mart. Pink...pink...pink. To quote a movie line, "It looks like it's been hosed down with Pepto Bismo."
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