Posted on 02/27/2017 5:03:40 AM PST by Nextrush
The campaign to get rid of marriage has not gone away. Civil partnerships for heterosexuals were not thrown out by the Appeal Court last week, only put off till later. They will come.
In fact, after 20 years of New Labour government (some of it nominally Tory) we can now look back and survey the smoking ruins of marriage. It's not that the New Labour radicals and their Tory imitators wrecked marriage on their own. It's just that they have more or less finished it off.
The very words 'husband' and 'wife' have been erased from official forms and even from normal conversation. We all have partners now, whether we want to or not.....
Marriage has a strange, unique status in the courts. If you break a contract with your building society or a car leasing company, the law will come down against you.
If you break the marriage contract, the law will take your side and will eventually throw the other party out of the marital home if she or he insists on sticking to the original deal. Odd, eh?......
I'd guess that marriage figures are artificially swollen each year by an unknown but large number of fake weddings, aimed at getting round immigration laws. Who can say?....
...the liberal thinking classes have for decades loathed and sought to undermine marriage. They hate it as a conservative, religious tradition which accepts that men and women are different, which is intensly private and gets in the way of the enlightened, paternal state they love so much.
The Left's new allies, globalist commerce, also hate marriage (especially the sort where the mother stays at home) because it stops them from employing women as cheap, pliant labor and turning them into incessant consumers. This is a long campaign.....
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Too bad we don't talk about it more in this country, the big corporations forcing Republican politicians to back away from Constitutional protections for businesses or institutions who oppose gay marriage. Mike Pence in Indiana and Asa Hutchinson in Arkansas key players in that arena in 2015.
It was almost a year ago in Georgia when Republican Governor Nathan Deal vetoed a bill to protect religious institutions that oppose gay marriage at the behest of the big corporations based in Atlanta.
It looks to me like the GOP Establishment-Trump Haters decided to draw attention to an issue where the polling data was more in their favor, transgender bathrooms and use that as a diversion-emotional wedge issue for election year 2016.
They took that issue up in North Carolina right in the wake of Governor Deal's anti religious freedom anti-First Amendment veto in Georgia.
The marriage issue is important to discuss and I support freedom for gay marriage opponents to speak their mind and live by their convictions.
The Corporatists and Globalists don't.
Marriage may not be worth defending.....at least the kind that requires a government license. There are so many miserable marriages and so few joyful marriages that one wonders what the fuss is about. Kids do not thrive in dysfunctional systems and adults who are miserable stuck in a dead partnership with no option of getting free do not make good parents or good citizens. So what are we defending here?
Speak for your own unhappy marriage! Mine is going great.
Marriage is a cornerstone of a decent society.
Perhaps the institution of marriage was meant to be loving and nurturing to all involved in it, giving people strength to face the world every day.
Without that strength, each person is weakened and needs something else or someone else as a substitute, like the state-big government.
Its obvious marriages are failing, but the only response I can give is to consider where I have failed in the marriage I am in and can improve.....
Government licenses and marriage are a topic I’ve heard discussed over the years.
Any institution licensed by government has the potential for sinister controls to be imposed on it.
But the deeper spiritual significance of marriage stands regardless of government.
A totalitarian society like Nazi Germany or the USSR and other Communist states are ones where family was or is subordinated to the state.
This destruction of marriage Hitchens alludes to destroys family and leaves big business or big government as alternative ‘family’ structures.
My sense of the forces at work in the world today is that of Corporatism-big government, big business, big banks taking charge.
Hitchens hits the truth.
Not just wipe out marriage, but destroy our value system, and with it Christianity.
Do you know if any mention was made at all on marriage at this year’s CPAC? I have heard zilch about it.
You really don’t have any idea what a “marriage license” is, obviously.
A “marriage license” is simply a recording device. That’s it. The “license” part is a misnomer. There are no competency requirements, no exams or quizzes, no periodic renewals, no anything. Just two people who want to officially (meaning recognized by everyone, including the government) join themselves together in what has traditionally been recognized throughout history and have that fact recorded. Even the fee for such is extremely nominal and the deal of a millennium - one small cost keeps your recorded document viable for eternity.
I really am getting tired of this “government in the marriage business” nonsense. It’s like the government (courts) won’t ever be enlisted to officiate the issues surrounding marriage, ever.
I think the ‘license’ part originated in the dim past when communities decided that the prohibitions of incest and adultery were good things and should be enforced.
Good point. Yes, government has to define marriage if they are going to recognize it, and the degraded forms of marriage should be dissuaded.
Traditional marriage between a man and a woman is being wiped out and replaced by whatever liberal governments want based on politically correct whims. Gay marriage will inevitably lead to recognizing polygamy and eventually child marriage, polyamory and the legalization of incest.
Mine was a clusterf888 and I am jealous that yours is going so swimmingly. A lot of them don’t. And why do you get a good one and I don’t?
I don’t know why. But a bad personal experience of one of the foundations of society shouldn’t encourage one to believe it is unimportant and not worth preserving.
There’s a “Brave New World” or perhaps the “Year 2525” being planned for the world.
Robots replacing humanity because its more efficient for business?
And with these go freedom and civilization.
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