Marriage
So I’m married now.
I’ve been married before, in what I like to call a “starter marriage.” I read one time in a magazine about the starter marriage phenomenon, and thought it applied well. I guess lots of people these days marry people they really shouldn’t, just to get the experience under their belt. That wasn’t my intention, but it turned out to be a good descriptor. The first one just didn’t feel real. It never was really a marriage I guess, more of an inconvenience for us both. But alas, I’ll talk about happier things.
Someone asked me the other day if I thought marriage was a good idea, and wasn’t 100% sure on how to answer it. I know for me it’s a good plan, but for others (ahem…) maybe not so much. I live life from a Christian viewpoint, so there’s always that… and then these days, it just seems more economically secure.
Now I’m bored with this blog. I was going to write about the economic impact of marriage and discuss the “Protection” of marriage act that just failed in the senate, but I got bored. Dammit, I really do try to blog about important stuff, I just think way faster than I type I guess.
Points:
1. The “defenders” of marriage in our government are mostly divorced.
2. Economically and socially, it would make more sense to allow same-sex couples legal rights of marriage.
3. I have gay friends that have been together way longer than most straight couples I know.
4. If you want to “defend” marriage, kill off some of those celebrities with their three-seven husbands. Get rid of Liz Taylor alone and you’ll lower the mean by several points.
5. We don’t need a president that runs our nation by his version of the bible ( I think it’s the same version my daughter has, written for three year olds). We need a president who runs the country by actually THINKING about something.
6. My job isn’t to prohibit others from doing what they want to do. My job is to live my own life right.
7. I really like Mitch Hedburg. You should check this guy out if you haven’t already. Funniest guy in the world.
