And so it begins, in Texas of course...

[kckc]

I haven't seen this mentioned yet, sorry if its a dupe.

http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20041105103609990008&_mpc=news%2e6&cid=842

To sum it up, there will now be an official definition of marriage in Texas textbooks. Something about a "lifelong union between a man and a woman". No mention of course of what to do about adultery, divorce, you know, those pesky heterosexual details.

[skooooo]

1. Oh yes, we know all marriages are "life long" too...

puleeze

[Rush1184]

7. It is funny

It is funny how religious, churchgoing, people promote these morals on others, but then go off and have an affair with somone less than half their age while their wife is recovering from breast cancer, like my dad, who shall remain nameless

[skooooo]

12. God forgives them...

when they repent. No problem! Convenient, isn't it?

[SammyWinstonJack]

13. It's a thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning

Religion is in the hands of some crazy ass people.

[Wright Patman]

2. Someone else on DU

has come up with the best way out of this mess. Historically, marriage was a church-based institution. Only later on did the state take it over and demand marriage licenses. There are still quite a few religious folks who do not believe in obtaining marriage licenses as it is a violation of the sacred covenant before God by involving a fourth party, the state, in addition to the man, woman and their invisible cloud being, as Malloy calls it.

There should be no more marriage outside churches. All other arrangements would be known as "civil unions" and would be enforced as any other legal contract.

See how the fundies react to that. They will have to favor state over church in order to hold to their present position.

[DireStrike]

4. Brilliant! Everyone wins! eom

[independentpiney]

5. that is the solution IMO

Marriage is a religious and primarily Abramic concept. The state should grant legal civil unions period. If you need to have it defined as a marriage, find a church to grant you one.

[Nay]

6. Yep, exactly what I have been saying as well.

[izzie]

3. We always go back to when the days were good.

If things were so good why did we not keep every thing the same? I guess we just like to think of the good times. We put all else out of our mind.

[Dem Agog]

8. Good so divorce and adultery are illegal...

When do we start jailing people?

[Malva Zebrina]

9. The Texas BofE has a long history of doing this

Their power lies in control over the content by demands to the text book publishers to change the text--or else---meaning no sale if not done.

[LTRS]

10. Doesn't Texas have one of the highest divorce rates

in the nation? I think so.

[elehhhhna]

14. Seems so (transplanted Chicagoan--) "lifelong"? Even the 2nd graders...

will die laughing at that one--. Id guess only about 20% of them are still with the same original parents in an intact family...

[Ilsa]

15. Fundies in the South generally have the highest divorce rates, so yes.

Part of it is because they tend to marry younger, which imparts more risk of divorce.

[Puglover]

11. I wish when something like this happens

that it were possible for ALL GLTG people to move the fuck out of the state and go to a gay friendly state. Hit these motherfuckers where it counts; in their pocketbooks.

Thank God I live in Minnesota.
edit last sentence.

[Sabriel]

16. Saying it doesn't make it so

Any more than saying that Columbus "discovered" America and befriended the native peoples makes it so.