A post from my ad-free web blog that's referenced by Real Proposal Magazine:
Sad Marriage in America
Sad Marriage in America
A Eulogy
Today we wish to remember a long-time friend to human civilization by the name of Marriage. It has always been a time-honored tradition between a man and a woman, and it's as old as humanity. But a couple of courtroom judges decided to change marriage. They scuttled marriage in the name of “civil rights” even though marriage is allowed in nations that have no civil rights at all. Yet in this nation where civil rights are supposedly venerated, people weren't even allowed to vote on what they believe marriage is. Supposedly every individual is born with certain unalienable rights, but now we are told a marriage license is needed before we can have our civil rights. "Singledom" is a second class status, as it were.
Christians called you a sanctified relationship, and marriage is sanctified for those who want it to be. However, Christianity doesn't hold a monopoly on marriage though we Christians like to think so. Atheistic countries have marriage just like everybody else. Historically marriage transcends both government and religion. Marriage has always been a man and a woman, and that's what got us here today.
It’s true that single people are discriminated against through government set-asides for the “married class.” This wasn't your fault, Marriage, but some state governments decided to place you on the altar of sacrifice to pay for their own discriminatory sins – the discrimination they created by establishing different classes of people for taxation. On a tax return you’ll see the classes as “married”, “head of household”, and “single” with privileges in that order. Marriage, this wasn't your fault, and we are truly sorry you've been made the scapegoat for our personal shortcomings. You were getting along just fine the way you were created to be.
You can’t blame gays for wanting their fair share, but did they have to do it with a marriage license? Is that what it took for equal protection under the law? This is indeed sad, as most of them will remain single, and their discrimination will continue in spite of legalized gay marriage. This discrimination shouldn’t have existed to start with. And when their spouse dies, the window, through no fault of their own, will fall into the lower "single" class the government created to discriminate against many of us.
Then take a look at the reasons for gay marriage. Some of the reasons include a legal protocol for an intestate will, greater access to government pension perks for the privileged few, a more lenient tax code, and hospital visitation rights. A commitment for life is almost unheard of as a reason for gay marriage. Love for another is replaced with convenience and personal needs for oneself. This is a sad kind of marriage indeed. It will probably go down in history as another marriage anomaly like "jumping the broom". Who remembers that anymore? Perhaps marriage itself will become an anomally where it becomes so inclusive that it becomes nothing.
But the stage was already set for this tragedy with divorce rates topping more than 50%, and more than half of all women that are marriage-age remaining single. It seems marriage vows don't mean much anymore. Remember those vows? Mine read something like this: ”I promise to honor her for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, forsaking all others, for as long as we both shall live.”
Marriage, we’re going to miss you. The world was a safer place when children came from you. People were more trusting back then too. Children don’t really matter much anymore. They’re more like something you can pick up at a pet store, and who really wants them? Consider that 40 million children have been aborted since Roe v. Wade. Love lost out.
So what comes next? I’m not looking forward to it, as things seem to be getting worse all around us. I’ll remember the day that a California court judge lowered the bar just one more notch to get us closer to the bottom, wherever that is. I hope I don’t live to see the bottom, and gay marriage is really really sad marriage. Even so come quickly Lord Jesus.
Shalom.
Sad Marriage in America
Sad Marriage in America
A Eulogy
Today we wish to remember a long-time friend to human civilization by the name of Marriage. It has always been a time-honored tradition between a man and a woman, and it's as old as humanity. But a couple of courtroom judges decided to change marriage. They scuttled marriage in the name of “civil rights” even though marriage is allowed in nations that have no civil rights at all. Yet in this nation where civil rights are supposedly venerated, people weren't even allowed to vote on what they believe marriage is. Supposedly every individual is born with certain unalienable rights, but now we are told a marriage license is needed before we can have our civil rights. "Singledom" is a second class status, as it were.
Christians called you a sanctified relationship, and marriage is sanctified for those who want it to be. However, Christianity doesn't hold a monopoly on marriage though we Christians like to think so. Atheistic countries have marriage just like everybody else. Historically marriage transcends both government and religion. Marriage has always been a man and a woman, and that's what got us here today.
It’s true that single people are discriminated against through government set-asides for the “married class.” This wasn't your fault, Marriage, but some state governments decided to place you on the altar of sacrifice to pay for their own discriminatory sins – the discrimination they created by establishing different classes of people for taxation. On a tax return you’ll see the classes as “married”, “head of household”, and “single” with privileges in that order. Marriage, this wasn't your fault, and we are truly sorry you've been made the scapegoat for our personal shortcomings. You were getting along just fine the way you were created to be.
You can’t blame gays for wanting their fair share, but did they have to do it with a marriage license? Is that what it took for equal protection under the law? This is indeed sad, as most of them will remain single, and their discrimination will continue in spite of legalized gay marriage. This discrimination shouldn’t have existed to start with. And when their spouse dies, the window, through no fault of their own, will fall into the lower "single" class the government created to discriminate against many of us.
Then take a look at the reasons for gay marriage. Some of the reasons include a legal protocol for an intestate will, greater access to government pension perks for the privileged few, a more lenient tax code, and hospital visitation rights. A commitment for life is almost unheard of as a reason for gay marriage. Love for another is replaced with convenience and personal needs for oneself. This is a sad kind of marriage indeed. It will probably go down in history as another marriage anomaly like "jumping the broom". Who remembers that anymore? Perhaps marriage itself will become an anomally where it becomes so inclusive that it becomes nothing.
But the stage was already set for this tragedy with divorce rates topping more than 50%, and more than half of all women that are marriage-age remaining single. It seems marriage vows don't mean much anymore. Remember those vows? Mine read something like this: ”I promise to honor her for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, forsaking all others, for as long as we both shall live.”
Marriage, we’re going to miss you. The world was a safer place when children came from you. People were more trusting back then too. Children don’t really matter much anymore. They’re more like something you can pick up at a pet store, and who really wants them? Consider that 40 million children have been aborted since Roe v. Wade. Love lost out.
So what comes next? I’m not looking forward to it, as things seem to be getting worse all around us. I’ll remember the day that a California court judge lowered the bar just one more notch to get us closer to the bottom, wherever that is. I hope I don’t live to see the bottom, and gay marriage is really really sad marriage. Even so come quickly Lord Jesus.
Shalom.
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