Don’t Call it Marriage – Call it Court-Mandated Madness

Crusade Magazine ^ | January/February 2007 | John Horvat II

[little jeremiah]

At one point in my life I read a lot of poetry. I used to really like Yeats; I really couldn't tell you what this poem means - I'm an uneducated fool. IIRC Yeats was a follower of Swedenborg, who I also know little about. Some kind of non-mainstream Christian mystic. I should do a google search on them both!


The Second Coming -- W. B. Yeats

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all convictions, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.


Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

[RKBA Democrat]

I never read poetry much. More the pity; that was a good poem.

Formal education is somewhat overrated. It's nice to have the brass rings (e.g. degrees) because our society has decided to reward the possession of them. But I think that you can often learn as much if not more with a library card and access to the 'net.

[pleikumud]

Courts and legislatures that endorse gay unions and gay "marriages" are endorsing gay sex, which is the root cause of AIDS. They are endorsing the spread of disease and ignoring health concerns, aka the "general welfare" of the public.

[trisham]

bump

[CitizenUSA]

LMD wrote: "One of them has to be the man so that the court will know who has to pay alimony, child support and the bills, and who will get the house, kids, dogs and van."

That's pretty funny. Can you imagine the uproar if we asked them to designate which one will play "wife" and which one will play "husband?" However, that WOULD make the division of spoils much easier in a divorce.