"Sanctity of Marriage"

Marriage is a funny thing.

I recently saw an article about how people are rushing into marriage too much. "They are ruining the sanctity of marriage." A friend of mine said the same thing about gays. She's not against gays, she just wants them to be fine with calling it a 'civil union' because the bible says marriage is between a man and a woman. To allow them to call it marriage would destroy the sanctity yada yada.

I wish I could remind everyone just as I reminded (or perhaps taught) my friend.

Christians did not invent marriage. Marriage has existed long before the bible was written. In fact, it's so old that nobody is exactly certain when it came to be. Even if you're Christian, how could you dictate rules for marriage when you reflect on that fact? It's not "yours" - it never was.

"Sanctity of marriage" is what we perceive it to be. Why should somebody else's marriage effect your own? If you're so hell-bent on marriage being the ceremony the homophobic bible-thumpers interpret it to be, why are you not equally pissed off at your brother who was married for 6 months and then got divorced? Your grandma who went through two husbands before settling on the right one? Your aunt, son, sister, teacher, co-worker.. The bible says something along the lines of "marriage is forever", yes? Why does divorce not exhibit crushing of sanctity in your eyes? Of course any Christian would say divorce is terrible - so would the rest of society most of the time - but you don't see anyone picketing a divorce court, do you? Or giving much of a shit when two 18 year olds engage in consensual premarital sex? Or most married couples giving much of a shit that sodomy is "off limits" in accordance with the bible? Or screaming at a girl who'd been raped that she didn't scream loud enough for someone to save her and then proceed to stone her to death? Dat Leviticus, mayne.

"Sanctity".. Humph. It's bullshit anyway. You want to know what 'sanctity' is? It's rich brat chicks getting pissed at middle class girls for wearing 'their brand' of clothes. It's whiny 'irony-kids' angry that a band they like is going mainstream. It's nerds like me getting upset at jocks playing Madden or pictures of duck faced girls with glasses holding a controller incorrectly with the tag "I'm a gamer". It's people going "No! You can't have it! It's OURS!". Christians trying to set laws for marriage based solely on the bible is an embarrassment to separation of church and state and also completely mental. They're trying to call shotgun when the rest of humanity was already sitting in the front seat.

Imagine that I started a religion that claimed sitting with your knees to your chest when in front of the computer is "in accordance with the prophecy" and is between a (straight) male and his chair. I'd get pissed at every female or "gay" that had the audacity to sit in abnegation of the prophecy with their knees up when I TOTALLY CALLED DIBS (because nobody ever gave enough fucks to call dibs before that). I'd go picket known offenders houses right outside their computer room window. Or, I'd picket known offenders funerals, saying "Glad you're in Hell now! God hates you because when we invented this religion we said that sitting how you've been sitting for years is ours now and then you sat in that certain way again and only WE can sit in that certain way!" There would be interviews where a straight-laced looking Brent would say things like "I just don't know why they're not fine with sitting in another way. They can still sit, just not the way we do. What are they so upset about??"

I'd be sitting in my computer chair utterly in accordance, but I'd (for some dumbass reason) feel that my 'sit' was tainted from all the vermin who weren't even straight males who dared sit like "us". I'd have a bad taste in my mouth just knowing that there were blasphemers out there sitting like me that very moment but who weren't in accordance. I'd lobby senators to correct this travesty and actually gain some headway in some states. This all seems so ridiculous, of course, but I hope you realize that's exactly the kind of shit our nation makes laws about - so none of you fucks will sit MY WAY. .... ... it's mine.

We all have something we want to keep for ourselves. I understand that. I've been there too. We mentally have put ourselves in a group and want to keep the group the way it is. But it's selfish and it's not (or shouldn't be) up to us. We all need to grow the fuck up and share our silly social constructs.

But seriously, playing Farmville or Madden doesn't make you a gamer. *he typed, while his Minecraft bracelet showed proud on his wrist and with his knees to his chest in accordance to the prophecy*

#marriage #sanctity