The so-called gay marriage event/law will eventually pass--nothing in the progressive movement of the last 100 years hasn't. You can see politicians rushing for the bandwagon. But I believe they will be getting an old worn out pair of shoes, scuffed, run down, out of fashion and tossed aside because no one but they and a few nuns and priests from the 70s seem to want it. And if gender doesn't matter, neither does age or number or consanguinity. If there is no bread on the table, there are no crumbs on the floor.
They could have lobbied and demonstrated for something new and fresh, free of the hundreds of laws now circling marriage, but instead they wanted what they really can't have--God's blessing and ours. Marriage is not respected today by the young, or even by most Christians who either shack up or serially marry--which seems to guarantee more divorce and remarriage. Marriage today is just one more lifestyle of choice. Our birth rate in the U.S. is below replacement rate and almost 41% of children are born to unmarried women, up from 18.4% in 1980. That's a good indication that marriage doesn't matter much. The state doesn't care about love--it has an interest only because families with children make better citizens and pay more taxes and will fight for their country (family) if need be. Those laws will have to go too since gay couples are by definition infertile and will need donors or AI--and new custody battles involving egg donor, sperm donor and partner. Should be a cottage industry for lawyers.
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