In which ariyanakylstram makes an excellent point

[unixronin]

As ariyanakylstram pointed out about California Proposition 8,

If marriage is so damned sacred, get rid of divorce, not the right to marry.

Ah, but that would impact those who think they have a god-given right to say who may and may not marry and divorce as they please, wouldn't it?  Whereas banning gay marriage only impacts, you know, them.

Look, folks, it's this simple:  If you disapprove of gays marrying, DON'T MARRY ONE.  If your marriage is in such jeopardy that two people marrying several states away can put it at risk, maybe you should be paying more attention to your own marriage instead of worrying about who else is doing it.

You know, mote, eye, beam, all that jazz?  . . . You did actually read that book, right?

Comments

[ithildae.livejournal.com]

The ability to perform marriages is licensed by the state. Any registered clergy can perform any marriage for anybody that the state allows to marry. A couple that wants to marry must but a license, and may then go to anyone the state has granted authority to perform the ceremony. That signature and two witnesses and it is done. It sounds like you are saying that the state should no longer authorize clergy to act on behalf of the state to perform marriages. Why? It will just increase the cost to the couple getting married as they then need two services instead of one. In general, people do not go to a person they do not like to ask them to perform the marriage. You are saying that because people can't do what they generally won't do anyway, that an entire class of people should be denied the right to perform marriages. I am losing the reason behind the proposed restriction.