I totally hear you! While I personally feel that people don't take marriage vows seriously enough anymore, that is a PERSONAL DECISION. The government should never, ever, ever, ever play any role in this. We as individuals have the right to behave in any way that we wish. While I personally may not choose to behave in that way, others will, and that is their choice!!
i also really feel that it is not the business of the government who marries who, who sleeps with who, because this is none of their business. I personally don't care who marries who. Another person may. But why is that other person have the power to override a gay person's choice to marry another homosexual person by making a law against it. In my mind, that is totally wrong.
I think half the laws on the books are ridiculous and intrusive on people's private lifes. This is only one of many!
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Originally posted by valkyrie
Although I disagree with everything you have said, I want to try to understand where you're coming from because I don't.
You take vows and marriage very seriously. Good for you -- I don't think that there is anything wrong with that. What baffles me is why you are concerned about how other people view their relationships. How does it affect you if other people get divorced or if gay people are able to marry? How does is affect you if other people don't take marriage seriously? How does that have any effect at all on your relationship or your life?
I just absolutely fail to understand why anybody here is concerned with other people's relationships and how they define them. When my divorce is final, what effect will that have on any other member of GC? None! Maybe some of you think less of me because I've broken my vows or whatever, but I believe that life is too short to stay in a relationship when you're not happy. That doesn't mean that I'm going to go out and tell all of the unhappily married people out there that they should get divorced because they are defiling the concept of marriage. Their relationships have nothing to do with me, and I think that people should be free to do what they want.
I think it's great to have things that you belive in very strongly, but I don't understand the desire to force others to fit into the mold that you have chosen for yourself.
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