It's the solar system, not gay marriage, that's the threat
Ask me for a definition of marriage and I’d have to shrug my shoulders. “What do I know?” I’d say, “I’ve been married for only 41 years.” Will my wife and I celebrate 42? I always assumed we’d make it together all the way to the river’s edge, but now I’m not so sure. You’ve read the bad news: Our marriage is in danger. The threat is same-sex marriage, and Amendment One is the defense.
Those who favor Amendment One have never explained specifically how this legislation will help me across the treacherous gap between 41 and 42 and beyond, and I cannot for the life of me figure it out, so lacking is the argument put forth by its proponents.
Their argument is always expressed in a military metaphor. “[M]arriage is under attack,” state recent letters in these pages; thus we “must not fail to protect marriage.” I tried to think of things that might have attacked my marriage, a marriage that began when Nixon was in the White House. We survived that presidency, and we survived all that followed: disco music, the cola wars, reality television, light beer. There may have been more serious problems, but we moved on, moved past 41 years, easing toward 42.
A possible problem resulting from Amendment One not often discussed is what I’ll call “matrimonial creep,” parallel to mission creep in military actions. What if legalizing same-sex marriage next leads to a woman wanting to marry her horse; some guy, his F-150? What if a Wiccan wants to marry the moon; a poet, all eternity? Entertaining, I suppose, but not an “attack” on my marriage.
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