Marriage is like baseball..Pre Prop 8 prediction

California'a Prop 8 hate ban caused me to return to my achives.

I have long been an advocate of marriage. From Brittany Spears's 55-hour union or marriages of death row inmantes, marriage is marriage is marriage.

This is from July 2003.

Marriage as we know it is a great institution. Even with its fifty-plus percent failure rate, it’s still a revered part of our society. Marriage is a like another great American pastime, baseball, where the best hitters fail two out of three times.

Marriage is commonly defined as a legal union between two people of the opposite gender that is sanctioned by God and/or the government. That means any legal age male and female may marry.

To demonstrate how wonderful marriage is, two drug addicts, two alcoholics, two people with AIDS, or two obese people may get married as long as one of them is a male and the other is a female. A young twenty-something woman may marry a very wealthy man in his nineties who has less than a 30-day life expectancy. A free, educated woman may marry a man on death row. A couple in their 90's in a nursing home may marry. Even two really stupid people, as long as they are of the opposite sex, can marry. And I thought the seven ways a batter can safely reach first base without getting a hit was strange.

Imagine the shock and awe felt by marriage traditionalists when the US Supreme Court ruled that homosexuality was no longer a crime. The ruling was actually protecting our right to privacy. The case involved two men in Texas who were arrested for being intimate in their own home. It is now legal for two men or two women to show the same affection as a man and a woman might show each other, as long as it’s done in private. Public passion is still a no-no for everyone.

There is now unfounded mass hysteria that homosexuals will someday be allowed to get married. Efforts are now underway to propose a constitutional amendment to ban homosexual marriage in the United States(was I ahead of my time or what). Gay marriages are legal in Belgium and the Netherlands, with Canada soon to follow. The last time America witnessed such an uproar was when the designated hitter was instituted in the junior division of Major League Baseball.

How dare our highest court override God. How dare the court open the door of possibility for two people of the same gender, who love and cherish and promise to be faithful to each other until death do they part, the right to the same benefits and privileges as normal people. Doesn’t the court know that decriminalizing homosexuality can only lead to gay marriages? What next? Will gays want to get an education, own businesses, teach, preach, vote, pay taxes, run for public office, serve our country in the military, and God forbid, move into our neighborhoods? Wait. They already do those things and the world hasn’t come to an end.

Yep, marriage is a lot like baseball. When the rules were changed to allow other players to bat for pitchers, some purists said God was angry. Many are speaking for God now about the threat to life as we know it. Of course, God only allows heterosexuals to speak for him.

There is some historical precedence for changing long held traditions. According to some, at one time God said slavery was okay. He changed his mind about that, didn’t he?

Or was that another Supreme Court undoing?
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