Enhancing the Power of the People

MARRIAGE HAS CHANGED CONSIDERABLY in America over the past fifty years or so. Divorce is accepted without judgment, as are second and third marriages, for which the divorce rate increases, statistically. And then of course we have the advent of gay marriage, sweeping across America, being legalized and ordained in state after state, in direct defiance, it would seem, of the federal government, which really ought to think about updating its laws to match. Marriage is always sanctioned by government , church, or both, common sense tells us that it needn't be, if the folks getting "married" don't want them to be involved. Now that government is getting involved in gay marriage, so is divorce court. The gay community may come to regret their crusade for government sanction. People who oppose gay marriage always use the same argument concerning man, woman, and god's intentions, or the founder's original intentions, or somebody's intentions. What we ought to be doing, of course,is concentrating on our intentions, not those of people who've been dead for hundreds of years. Once you start allowing marriages between things other than men and women, goes the argument, you are free to allow anybody to get married to anybody, or anything. Before long people will be marrying statues, donkeys, and flagpoles, and making a mockery of traditional marriage. Well, fine. Whatever. Let anybody marry anything he or she wants to marry! It need not be sanctioned by the state or the church, but need only be sanctioned in the hearts and minds of the betrothed, whether said betrothed be animal, or mineral. We are all perfectly to ingore any marriage we consider invalid or inappropiate. If the masses of the world would forge ahead in the formation of whatever relationships, with each other they choose, marital and other, without seeking the sanction or approval or permission of any corporation, lawyer, or government, then the power of the world's masses, the common people, would be enhanced. Doesn't it need to be? Me? I'd love to be married to three women in particular right now. But probably not for the rest of my life.