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Let Your Love Shine

3/26/2013

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If you've been reading my blog long enough, you know I fly on the side of love.

Today and tomorrow, the Supreme Court is hearing arguments about same-sex marriage. Forty-one states currently forbid it. Forbid. They forbid love.

This has been one of those arguments that makes me shake my head in wonder.

Because, really, if you want to get married, it will never be easy. It doesn't matter what your gender is. 

If you never shared a bedroom growing up, guess what, now you will. If you didn't go away to college and experience living with roommates, now you will. Shared bathroom time. Laundry. Parenting small people; who turn into big people. Religious, political, environmental, educational ideas that won't always mesh. Seriously.

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Note the people who are "allowed" to get married, and how blissfully long they stayed married. 

Kim Kardashian. I will confess to watching these over-the-top nuptials with Bella. I was drawn in hook, line, and sinker. THIS is the woman young girls "look up to" and "admire?" She is currently a red-hot mess of pregnant with another man's baby while still married. NOT forbidden.

Katy and Russell. That was just odd. Now at least she is wide awake.

55 hours of marriage:
Britney Spears and Jason Alexander
9 days:
Dennis Rodman and Carmen Electra
18 days:
Mario Lopez and Ali Landry
107 days:
Nicolas Cage and Lisa Marie Presley
122 days:
Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock
225 days:
Renée Zellweger and Kenny Chesney

How many people do you know who have been married more than once? I was allowed to get married twice.

It doesn't list a gay couple. Because 41 states forbid them to marry. Who doesn't love NPH? Or Ellen? Or Anderson Cooper?

The shining light of the brilliant examples of who CAN get married fills me with an internal rage.

We are NOT born with the capacity to be prejudiced. We are taught it.

Can we please, please, please start teaching more about love?

Both light and shadow are the dance of love.
~ Rumi

4 Comments
Leigh
3/26/2013 01:28:54 am

Great post, Maggie!

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Maggie ~ TGHR
3/26/2013 02:11:18 am

I do what I can. ;-)
Thanks, Leigh!

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Katya
3/27/2013 03:00:01 am

So true. And one of the arguments yesterday was that marriage is about children. By that definition, we can annul all those new marriages of people over 50, people who can't bear children, people who, God forbid, don't want children and so many others. The whole thing is silly to me. Love is love is love, and discrimination under the veil of religion not only is still discrimination, but it is also an insult to the very religion it is trying to co-opt.

Great post. :)

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Maggie ~ TGHR
3/27/2013 03:09:57 am

Thanks Katya. I take a small look at "the other side" today.

It's VERY hard to shake off the religious teachings that we are raised with, and I think that's where so many of the moral dilemmas come from.

I think Senator Portman's change of heart shows that love will triumph and trump any teachings when your own kid is involved.

As far as kids...please, that's whole 'nother magilla...

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