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[ksmith]

Copy this sentence into your livejournal if you're in a heterosexual marriage/relationship (or if you think you might be someday), and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.

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[e-moon60.livejournal.com]

I have repeatedly challenged said bigots to explain just exactly how--by what mechanism--gay marriage or divorce or other peoples' marital problems is supposed to ruin *my* marriage.

They never can. They fall back on the "sacredness" of marriage, and when I pin them down and say "But how does someone else's behavior change the sacredness of MY marriage?" they can't answer.

It's ridiculous. The only people who can hurt a marriage are the people in it. My husband and I can ruin our marriage....but no one else can. It's between us--it's ours--and we're solely responsible for how it turns out.

I know gay people, some in relationships and some not. It doesn't make a flipping bit of difference to our marriage. We aren't less married because someone else gets married. We aren't less committed to each other because two other people are also commited to each other. Our marriage is no less valid because someone else's marriage is valid. It's a stupid, stupid, stupid, notion that gay people getting married damage heterosexual peoples' marriages, and the heterosexual people who feel their marriages were damaged...just don't have very good marriages and need to learn a few basic principles of psychological and marital health.

I say this as a very grouchy old lady over sixty who--in two days--will be celebrating 39 years of marriage (first and only marriage) and would be delighted to celebrate it with married gay friends if this dingbat state weren't acting like a nervous virgin about the whole thing.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I don't understand this incessant interest that one particular sliver of society has in the private lives of everyone else.

But that line in the Bible about a camel having a better chance of passing through the eye of a needle than a businessman has of entering the kingdom of Heaven--you don't hear that one. I don't believe I've heard that line once in 8 years.

Hypocrites.