My marriage needs defending. All marriages need defending.

So sez Il Presidente Fuquad, and he used his Saturday Soapbox to tell me that.

Activist judges and all that. Man and a woman. The Dakotas shouldn't hafta recognize Adam and Steve from ::::sneer:::: Massachusetts or San Francisco ::::unsneer::::.

So lemme understand, Mr. Fuquad? We're gunna finally defend marriages? Good. I assume this defense will provide protection to marriages torn apart by abject poverty, right? You're gunna provide health care to all those uninsured who do drastic things just to survive, right? You're gunna help those seniors who, today, hafta divorce just to keep some semblance of an income, right? You're gunna make sure that kids all have food to eat and you're gunna change the social pressures that cause impoverished family fathers to desert their kids ... or worse, commit a minor crime just put some bread and bologna, with some mustard, on the table, right? You're going to decriminalize drugs, the use of which rips apart many families as one spouse or the other goes to jail for a brazillian years, right?

You're gunna stop sending our young soldiers on endless rotations to some faraway, oil rich land? You're gunna support the families they leave to go to do your bidding, right? You're gunna increase the minimum wage so all the poor can afford a decent place to live ... you know, something other than the family van.

Yer gunna do all that, aintcha, Mr. Fuquad?

Yer also gunna make divorce damned near impossible, right? And of course, as you stop Adam and Steve, you'll also criminalize adultery, right? A dickectomy for the guys, right? And maybe a few well located stitches fer the gals, right? Can't have no damned marriage breaker-uppers, can we?

Oh ... as part of this Constitutional Amendment you see as so needed for the good of all of us, you'll also be pushing that as yet unresolved ERA thing, right? You remember that, dontcha, George? The one that gives women some needed protection from inequality. I mean, it logically follows, doesn't it George? We all hafta be the same. No room for diversity in our fine Christian nation, right George?

And we hafta go back to all that racial equality crap too, President Fuquad. You know, I can really get behind all this. I would be the last one to want to have live next door to a family with a black mother and white father ... and two obviously confused kids. I mean ... what are they? Black? White? Striped? Can't have that either, Georgie. And while we're fixing all this shit we have to face in our everyday lives, No more mixed marriages at all. No Jew should *ever* be able to marry a Methodist. And good gawd, imagine the strife we can save by preventing them Catholics from marrying one of them independent thinking Unitarians. In fact, let's go all the way and just outlaw the Unitarians. Shoot every one of their sorry asses. I mean, geeeze, some of *them* even chant to Mother Nature from time to time. I've seen it George, I went to Unitarian service for a time. It was scary what them damned free thinkers do.

Anyway .... thanks George. You're on to something with all this defense you like to do. After all, there *is* a war on marriage.

Right?

I liked especially that you mentioned the economic stress that can lead to marriage break up.

It would seem to me that allowing gays to marriage strengthens the institution, because it allows all lvoing, committed couples to wed-this can only set a good example to those couples who live without benefit of marriage because they don't "see what is in it for us".

After all, you eat better at your house than I do. :evilgrin:

(Why do you listen to that asshole?)

I almost skipped reading it until I realized what "Presidente Fuquad" was phonetically. :rofl:
k&r

post this(with full credit, of course) to my little trolls??--I LOVE the sound of troll heads blowing up in the morning!!

If it helps, use it anywhere and everywhere.

know the more extreme reactions, if you are interested.

... my days become cheerier! :)

I keep wondering who's going to choose precisely which man and which woman get to revel in complete and total domestic bliss while the rest of us pine away longingly and watch?

Every time ya think this administration can't get any dumber, they out do themselves. Gotta hand it to 'em.

And I thought declaring English as America's official language was as absurd as it could get.

Our government has become a parody of itself at best. It would be funny if it weren't so bloody tragically pathetic.

GREAT RANT, Husb2Sparkly! ABSOLUTELY GREAT!!!

:kick: :kick: :kick:

The rumor is that Bush is having an affair with Condi Rice. I guess its the fault of Gay people?

:applause:

:toast:

Us Brits know what to do with traitors on November 5th

Guy Fawkes Day? Bring on the bonfires!

the biggest enemies of heterosexual marriages are helpless wives (or husbands) who have fallen victim to the sexist stereotypes that tell them they are weak and helpless (or should be macho and dominant). I've been happily married for a long, long time. The basis of a strong marriage is two strong partners who support each other through the good and bad times. The sexist stereotypes don't work in marriage. Each relationship is different. It's not the fact that one partner is a man and the other is a woman that is important. It's love, and how you support each other, and whether you are strong on your own and therefore bring strength to the marriage and to your partner. Bush is a fool.

Regarding your reference to soldier's marriages, I received an advance copy of a book I related precisely to that point but haven't had a chance to read it.

The description on the back was pretty hard to take itself. How does the one left behind deal with the kids, the loneliness, the desires, the never-ending fear of hearing bad news?

I'd like to see President Fuquad answer that point on a radio address.

Ouch--whatta world, eh, Stinky?

Some day, perhaps it can be Stinky World. That's a much better place ..... b'lieve me. :)

Party hats and red noses on rubber bands, big feet shoes and honky horns on belts.

And sanity.

K & R

Now, I read here on DU that education is the key variable in marital longevity.

Highly educated: fewer divorces

Poorly educated: more divorces

Yet we spend a pittance on education.

Just the money they're spending on this bogus 'marriage amendment' could fund a large city's education budget, no doubt.

I'm so disgusted.

my marriage could use some defense... This full-time caretaker thing is getting tiring, and it hasn't been a year yet... What do I do 10 years from now, when I am exhausted?

Dear Mr. Cafferty:

Can we really afford to spend the time debating marriage when there are so many other really important problems out there?

How many of our troops have died and been wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan because Annie and Katie want the same rights as George and Laura? How many illegal aliens have entered the country because Jim and Harry want to get married? How much did gas prices go up because Mike and Bill filed for a marriage license? Will corporations stop breaking laws, and Congress stop taking bribes if marriage is protected? If we define marriage as being between 1 man and 1 woman - does that mean my grandmother will be able to get her prescriptions filled at an affordable price?

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