Well said; marriage now-a-days is pretty much contract of EN-LUST-IFICATION..., GOLD-DIGGING.., -or- a FRANCHISE in some social Crime...
Marriage is totally about the children otherwise why GET married?..
Several businesses exist wholly because of marriage.. like: lawyering.. and clergy... and witch-doctoring..
"God" does not seem to require "a marriage license" the lawyers do...
Three entities in a marriage.. 1) man.. 2) woman.. 3) God..
Common law marriage is a mental game.. and pal-i-moaney is a legal scam..
Any "SOCIETY" is based on how marriage is treated.. the "quality" of it's Morality is born in that treatment..
Marriage is the corner-stone of a society NOT THE capstone..
NO GOD........ no marriage.. it's serial fornication..
Very, very well said, dear hosepipe! There’s a lot of wisdom in your post.
marriage now-a-days is pretty much contract of EN-LUST-IFICATION..., GOLD-DIGGING.., -or- a FRANCHISE in some social Crime...
Spirited: For people dissatisfied with ‘self’ (homosexuals)marriage is coveted in the vain hope that possession of it will resolve dissatisfaction with ‘self.’ But as the real source of dissatisfaction is the human condition, after the initial euphoria of marriage wears off, dissatisfaction with self will once again rear its ugly head.
Spot on. When many conservatives started viewing marriage as a romance/love based institution instead of a reproductive contract between two families, the argument against gay marriage was neutered. When society doesn't incentivize men to get married, men will abandon the institution of marriage as they are doing now.
Examples of such disencentives is the (anti)family court and divorce court system that overwhelmingly punishes husbands, no matter what the husbands do.
Another disincentive against men is the anti-dowry. What do I mean by anti-dowry? In societies where real family values exist such as India, a prospective woman for marriage comes with a dowry and virginity, in order to encourage men to marry these women in an arranged marriage with the woman's father's family. In anti family societies, such as America and Europe, the woman (who probably had sex with the football team at high school, and dated several tatted-up thugs while she was in college pursuing her worthless liberal arts degree) comes with an anti-dowry such as student loans and consumer debt.
What man would want to marry in the Western World?
The Christian Right's obsession with "gay marriage" is just an example of moral cowardice. They refuse to confront the real issue