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Politics : Polite Political Discussion- is it Possible? An Experiment.
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To: epicure who wrote (1051)8/20/2006 3:36:14 PM
From: J. C. DithersRead Replies (4) of 1695
 
Marriage cannot become more debased than it already is. The heterosexuals have killed it- with their serial monogamy.

Your argument is hopelessly flawed. To begin with, gay couples would not be seeking marriage so desperately if the institution were so "debased."

In truth, it is amazing that the institution of marriage has held up as nobly as it has. Young people do not have to marry any longer for security and survival, as they did in earlier times (in our agrarian days, children were a necessity as farm workers and eventually to support parents, in a continuous family cycle from generation to generation).

In modern society no one has to get married. Men AND women of any ambition can look forward to lucrative careers and financial security for life. Sex is all-too available without marriage. The single life is an attractive alternative of pleasure without responsibility. Singles can have children if they wish without social opprobrium. Dating services up-the-gazoo provide easy access to as much companionship as anyone might want. Why should ANYONE want to "tie the knot" and take on a "ball and chain"?

And yet the wedding sections of the Sunday newspaper are bigger than ever, thank you.

Yes, a lot of these marriages will end in divorce. Why? Because the "no-fault" idea was invented in the 1980's as a result of the gender equality movement. Divorce became all too easy, convenient, and cost-free.

If 50 percent of new marriages will fail, that does tell you something about marriage. But what it tells you is that marriage is an amazingly strong institution if 50 percent of these couples will remain wed for life in the face of easy divorce laws and all of the societal temptations that surround them and seductively invite dissolution, especially when children are gone from the nest.

Ane the topper is this: what do most of these divorced people do? They turn right around and marry again.

Don't worry so much about the institution of marriage.

It is doing just fine.

And it doesn't need to be changed.
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