Loony Fundie Nonsense for the Masses
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United States: Fundie group the Focus on the Family want to hear your views on how wonderful marriage is, so they can publish a book calling for it to be denied to pooves.
E-mail us your anecdotes, stories and observations about the value of marriage to you -- and to society. How has being married made you a better man or woman? How has seeing the marriage of a friend or relative helped teach you valuable lessons about life? How did the unique contributions of each of your parents shape who you are today?
Those are the kinds of thoughts we'd like you to share in a message of no more than 400 words. Send it to citizenlink@family.org with the subject lineWhy Marriage Matters-- and be sure to include your name, address and phone number, in case we need to contact you.
Hmm...
I have only been married for eleven months, and we only bothered because of the legal and tax benefits. I admit I'm surprised how good it's been—our relationship is exactly the same as it was beforehand and we didn't start arguing like my married parents did throughout my childhood. So wonderful is it, that I would be more than happy to let my friends who happen to have same-sex partners share the joy (and especially the tax breaks).
I don't think that what they want, somehow (via Ex-Gay Watch).
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June 8, 2004 11:49 AM
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Oh, I wouldn't say we 'married on the quick' - it took us ten years to get round to it.
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June 8, 2004 5:17 AM | Reply
It looks to me like marrying on the quick is an extremely good way to get a long-lasting relationship.
My parents did the same: the direct trigger was that they'd not be able to sleep in the same room when staying in my grandfather's house unless they were married. (He's a bigoted religionist of the Judaism-converted-to-Anglicanism variant.)
Twenty-nine years later, they're still going strong...