Oh this is a mind-blowing article, and I am still having problems typing, cross eyed and shaking with laughter.
I always knew that The Weekly Standard inhabited a very strange parallel reality but this hilarious piece of garbage really takes the biscuit [if not the whole barrel].
Its amazing just how much social conservatives whine when they really get their teeth stuck into something.
Talk about losing your way in your own argument and then making a total ass of yourself at the same time, as I say a classic of the genre.
The difference is between the duties that marriage imposes on married people--not rights, but rather onerous obligations--which do not apply to same-sex love.
Right gotcha your kids are a right pain in the ass, had your wallet raided recently?
Onerous? Oh good grief.
OK on we go...
The relationship between a same-sex couple, though it involves the enviable joy of living forever with one's soulmate, loyalty, fidelity, warmth, a happy home, shopping, and parenting, is not the same as marriage between a man and a woman, though they enjoy exactly the same cozy virtues. These qualities are awfully nice, but they are emphatically not what marriage fosters, and, even when they do exist, are only a small part of why marriage evolved and what it does.
Undeclared war in the Schluman household is my guess, somebody squeeze the toothpaste at the wrong end again?
They are replicating what we might call the "romantic marriage,"
Sniff....poor baby no flowers this week-end?
Here we go the first real zinger
The first is the most important: It is that marriage is concerned above all with female sexuality. The very existence of kinship depends on the protection of females from rape, degradation, and concubinage.
What the Fuck???/
Bwahahahahahahahahahaha
Its too much......
;)
Marriage, whatever its particular manifestation in a particular culture or epoch, is essentially about who may and who may not have sexual access to a woman
Sam are you glaring at the pool-boy again?
It gets better.
This most profound aspect of marriage--protecting and controlling the sexuality of the child-bearing sex--is its only true reason for being, and it has no equivalent in same-sex marriage.
So a husband = biological chastity belt?
**snicker**
Oh really he is getting beyond silly.
Second, kinship modifies marriage by imposing a set of rules that determines not only whom one may marry (someone from the right clan or family, of the right age, with proper abilities, wealth, or an adjoining vineyard), but, more important, whom one may not marry.
Looks like he is having serious regrets about his home life.
Third, marriage changes the nature of sexual relations between a man and a woman. Sexual intercourse between a married couple is licit; sexual intercourse before marriage, or adulterous sex during marriage, is not. Illicit sex is not necessarily a crime, but licit sexual intercourse enjoys a sanction in the moral universe, however we understand it, from which premarital and extramarital copulation is excluded.
Looks like he had a really sad time at college.
Few men would ever bother to enter into a romantic heterosexual marriage--much less three, as I have done--were it not for the iron grip of necessity that falls upon us when we are unwise enough to fall in love with a woman other than our mom.
Bingo and watch out mommy.
This man has some serious issues.
Can gay men and women be as generous as we straight men are?
Wondering are you Sam?
Every day thousands of ordinary heterosexual men surrender the dream of gratifying our immediate erotic desires. Instead, heroically, resignedly, we march up the aisle with our new brides,
3 marriages?
I don't think you did too much heroical resignation.
Or maybe judging by the tone of your editorial your wife escaped her prison.
Poor Sam should never have joined the Taliban.
Dear gods and he wonders why.
Bwahahahahahahahahaha.
You really have to read the whole article, its a gem and a good guide to why divorce happens.
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http://weeklystandard.com/...
All in all the best laugh I have had in ages when reading something written by a certifiable wingnut.
Update:
I have loved many of the comments, I have also looked back at some of Sam's 'work' I may well have to do another diary......wow.
Update:
Looks like I will have to send this page to Sam the unwise.
;)