Today on the radio, I listened to Jerry Rapier (Plan-B Theater’s producing director since 2000, in Salt Lake City Utah). Rapier 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 already possessed and could take for themselves as a human right.
Perhaps Jerry means that gay people 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 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 hold marriage certificates, a much smaller number of couples – 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
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 already possessed and could take for themselves as a human right.
Perhaps Jerry means that gay people 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 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 hold marriage certificates, a much smaller number of couples – 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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