Why do Gays want to get married?
Well, to answer this we must first know what is marriage. To some, marriage is a magical and sacred institution that is meant to publicly solidify that most wonderful of emotions...LOVE. Yet, love is rarely the final end result of marriage.
Marriage has changed so much over the generations. To hear the deeply religious talk about marriage, one would think that it was decreed by God many generations ago and it has not changed. This is not really the case. Marriage as our culture knows it, is a result of multiple gyrations and changes over years of trial and error. I will attempt to put in perspective, based on the information I can gather, just how much marriage has changed over the years. Bottom line is that marriage is not the unchanging institution that many religious persons would like you to believe.
Marriage has changed so much over the generations. To hear the deeply religious talk about marriage, one would think that it was decreed by God many generations ago and it has not changed. This is not really the case. Marriage as our culture knows it, is a result of multiple gyrations and changes over years of trial and error. I will attempt to put in perspective, based on the information I can gather, just how much marriage has changed over the years. Bottom line is that marriage is not the unchanging institution that many religious persons would like you to believe.
posted by Kent Walker at
7:37 PM
4 Comments:
Kent :-)
Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment to my same-sex union vs. marriage posting.
I have the comments sent to me via email. When I first started reading your comments you hooked me.
I did read through the entire message and gave a sigh of relief when I read your last sentence. I appreciate your senses of sadness, and humor. At least we do not have a sense of resignation.
It seems as though we share similar views of the injustices perpetrated on those who are different. We shall have to keep doing our part to help enlighten others.
If you haven't done so, I would like to suggest you stop by another blog of mine, Things I Have Stumbled Across Along the Way.
Continue to....
serve others, care about those you serve, and share the love in your heart.
Hi Kent,
Glad to see you're moving forward with this. I'm going to point my hubby to this site so he can comment on what he thinks "marriage" is. He's very passionate about gays and lesbians talking about marriage in ways that go beyond "benefits," and I think he could really add to the commentary here.
Kent,
I'm very excited to hear your historical analysis of marriage. I read a few books years ago that really blew my mind about how recently the institution of marriage started.
I've read many very thoughtful posts by you on other blogs. It will be great to see you set your own agenda.
Dale
Kent,
Welcome to blogland! It's great to see you starting your own blog. I was just talking to Dale last night about how the last two years of my life have been focused on the BlockOut Wisconsin website (no longer in service) and of the hundreds of hours I, my sister and Bryan (my husband) spent on it. It did evolve into my baby after we got started, but the three of us were somehow able to put it all together.
Anyway, I was telling Dale it's great to see some people "carrying the torch" so to speak. I need a break from running a website/blog, so it's nice to feel in some way that a few people are "taking my place." Certainly makes me feel less guilt. :)
So, it looks like you'll have a great blog here and one that goes into a lot of depth. Bryan said I could add some comments on why marriage matters, although I'm not feeling very expressive right now. I can also see that your blog will go into a lot of detail, but I'll start with something simple.
To get others to relate to why marriage matters, for me it's pretty simple. We just have to get them to remember why they got married or why they want to get married. For most of us, marriage is a huge event, a public profession of love, a commecement of our lives with the one we love and is one of the major 'languages' of the world. Most of us want to be a part of that...it's something we can all relate to and unifies us. Being left out, even for those who don't want to get married, really does make us second class citizens.
I'm not feeling eloquent tonight and I'm sure I could say more, but I guess that's where I'll start.
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