Marriage.
It's real easy for a man & a woman to get married - they can do it in Las Vegas in 2 minutes. Getting divorced, on the other hand, is another thing altogether.
Ladies & Gentlemen - let me introduce to you to the Entropic View of Marriage.
Thermodynamics tells us that entropy has to increase overall (local exceptions of course!).
Consider a classic example:
A building - building the building takes a long and convoluted time of getting all manner of things to be in the right place, paper-wise & materials-wise.
Destroying the building takes a few of those same permits and hoop jumping to get the permission to do so, but it takes only a few seconds to destroy the building.
By the Law Of Entropy, being Divorced is a more Orderly state of affairs than being married. Getting Married is like destroying a building. Getting divorced is like building one.
Notice how the only
vocational category giving broad support to gay marriage comes from the Divorce Lawyers.
*COMEDY ENDS HERE*
I agree with Onifre - fuck the churches on this. I also agree with the sentiments voiced underneath the comments made by Taz. And I also agree with a lot of what Hyroglyphics has to say on this matter.
then there is another thing altogether....
OKAY - what about a farmer who wants to marry one of his sheep? With full legal status?
We all go NO, right? okay......
What about the genetic scientist in the future who has been breeding chimpanzees with humans and then later has a son who wants to marry one of these hybrids?
Watch us all go OOGE with a brick on our head bone.*
What about a man who takes a wife in a society that religiously requires that the female offspring to be circumcised...mutilated beyond being able to enjoy sex? What about those weird fringe religions right here in this United States I am in (you UK dudes may know of them).
There are a whole shitload of issues, but the gay marriage issue - to me - is safely well inside the Venn Diagram circle of what I will have no problem with. My problem is that I dont even know where to draw those other circles! Well - yeah, the sheep - no way.
And also, isnt "wife" a derogatory term? The sexism of the dominant males completely pervades the culture to the extent that even the language is nothing more than a method to maintain the status quo. Like I say, the lawyers are the only group.....
* 106 brownie points to the one who can reference this (RAZD disqualified from playing)
- xongsmith