Listening to Jerry Rapier on the radio, (Plan-B Theater--Salt Lake City Utah) he indicated that gay partners want to experience the full meaning of marriage through legally sanctioned marriage. It is an interesting concept.
In the sixties the hippie generation rebelled against the government's institution of marriage claiming, like the tea partiers claim, that the government couldn't give them what they could already possessed and could take for themselves as a human right.
I know perhaps Jerry means they want the apparent prominence that a legally sanctioned, governmentally recognized marriage gives. Yet, really, how does the federal or state government create the "full meaning" of marriage. Don't two people do that? Isn't it something intrinsic within the marriage that is created by the couple?
I submit, that while the government may encircle a couple with legal protection by granting a marriage certificate and thereby requiring society to treat it as such, only a couple, by their effort, free from governmental intrusion, effuses a marriage with its full meaning.
Unfortunately, while multitudinous couples have marriage certificates, it's a much smaller number, that through their great love, dedication and devotion, hold out the ideal of marriage's full meaning for all to follow, with or without the government's certification.
Loren M. Lambert © August 2, 2012
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