Hmm... but now that ya mention driftglass, I took a look and he makes an interesting argument regarding the perceived threat to the institution of marriage.
Personally, that angle never made sense to me. What
is this threat? Admittedly, there are just some things I'll never be able to understand. Here's driftglass' take:
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"So let us imagine there’s a box in, oh, say, Massachusetts or Oregon or Iowa.
A big box, and in that box are the following items:
1. A Bible.
2. A preacher.
3. A gay couple.
4. A straight friend.
5. Enough consumables and comforts to last a lifetime.
Sort of a Biosphere II, but with vastly better feng shui.
And you’re living la vida no-neck in some high-toned, melanin-poor gated exurb, or in some scruffier digs where the “gate” is a gaunt, three-legged pit-bull named Bobby Lee tied the rusted hulk of an El Camino up on ancient blocks.
Now at some point over the course of years, the gay couple may ask the preacher to pick up the bible and, with their straight friend standing witness, get hitched.
Or they may not.
In fact, they exist only in a cloud of quantum connubial possibilities until you bust the box open and demand to know just what in the **** they’re doing in there. And how can they have amassed such a formidable stockpile of really spiffy antiques without ever having left the box!
It is only when you kick the door down and intrude on their private business that the haze of potential outcomes collapses into a single, nuptial certainty.
So the question is, when
exactly -- over the course of, say, forty years of leaving the box intact and letting them be -- did their status inside the box destroy your marriage outside the box?
When was it --
precisely -- during those four decades that this single detail of the lives of strangers who live so immensely far away from you in every meaningful way managed to intrude into your life so violently that it ruined your relationship with your spouse and debased the value of the love and mutual commitment you share?
So much so that the only possible solution is to amend the foundational documents of our democracy?
Because if you cannot identify the
specific, quantifiable harm that such a union would have on you and yours, then shut your ****ing hole."
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Lol.... I don't care what anyone says.... he's hilarious.
