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Originally Posted by Pleasurepays
isn't that also a good argument that we should be striving to protect the institution of marriage and revive it?
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Nope. The institution of marriage is pretty cut and dry. It says right in the vows you take. For better or worse, sickness and health, richer or poorer until death do us part. That is pretty clear cut. If people choose to take that oath, then choose to not honor that agreement it means one of two things, 1. the agreement is unreasonable and asking people to uphold it is unreasonable or 2. people don't hold the agreement sacred.
Either way it is an individual's prerogative if they want to take those vows seriously or not. I understand that there are many reasons for a marriage to end. A friend of mine just left her husband because he was abusive. To me that means the agreement was unreasonable. She couldn't uphold her part of the agreement due the circumstances she was living under. Could she have stayed with him? Sure. But should she be forced to live the rest of her life in misery and potential danger because of a decision she made when she was 23 years old? I don't think so.
What I am getting at is that the sanctity of marriage comes down to each individual and who they choose to enter into that agreement with. Some people make good choices, get married for the correct reasons to the right person and stay together forever. Many people do not. If the sanctity of marriage is up to each individual than I don't see how gay marriage can alter it in any way. If gay marriage were suddenly made legal nationwide do you think straight people would stop getting married? Do you think couples that are already married would suddenly just divorce? Nope. It would have no effect on it whats so ever.
Marriage is a failed institution and has been pretty much since the beginning. Even before divorce was common there were many miserable marriages and people living together that hated each other, but felt they had no way out of the situation. If two people want to enter into a marriage that is between them and nobody else. I can't see any way that the government could protect or revive the sanctity of marriage short of outlawing divorce and then we would just go back to where we were before with many miserable people coexisting because they made a bad decision and now have no way out of it.