Comments on: The Truthe® Comes From Maine http://www.giantgayrepellentumbrella.com/2009/05/the-truthe-comes-from-maine/ Keeping the world safe from Gay Marriage - Paid for by God and Doctors Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:09:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Barbara Saunders http://www.giantgayrepellentumbrella.com/2009/05/the-truthe-comes-from-maine/comment-page-1/#comment-535 Barbara Saunders Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:34:37 +0000 http://www.giantgayrepellentumbrella.com/?p=92#comment-535 I have a contrary position. There was a tradition of "heterosexual marriage" based upon very strict sex roles. The thing that ate away at that first was the nuclear family itself - young men and women in isolated couples separated geographically from the older generations who enforced the roles through all the stages of life - what Mothers must do, what Fathers must do, what roles Grandparents and Cousins and Aunts ("old maid" or otherwise) and Uncles ("gay" or otherwise) should play. Personally I think that once those roles broke down, the artifact of gender roles in marriage was soon to follow. In my opinion, gay marriage does reflect the end of the old definition of marriage, but, as I wrote above - so do nuclear families. I don't think that's a bad thing. I wholeheartedly support marriage equality. I find it strange, though, that one of the main strategies that has been adopted has been to argue for a kind of traditional marriage that straight people really don't follow and/or to pretend that the sex role issue never existed and that marriage was always about "love and commitment" by choice between two equal parties free to create the relationship they want. I have a contrary position. There was a tradition of “heterosexual marriage” based upon very strict sex roles. The thing that ate away at that first was the nuclear family itself – young men and women in isolated couples separated geographically from the older generations who enforced the roles through all the stages of life – what Mothers must do, what Fathers must do, what roles Grandparents and Cousins and Aunts (“old maid” or otherwise) and Uncles (“gay” or otherwise) should play.

Personally I think that once those roles broke down, the artifact of gender roles in marriage was soon to follow.

In my opinion, gay marriage does reflect the end of the old definition of marriage, but, as I wrote above – so do nuclear families. I don’t think that’s a bad thing.

I wholeheartedly support marriage equality. I find it strange, though, that one of the main strategies that has been adopted has been to argue for a kind of traditional marriage that straight people really don’t follow and/or to pretend that the sex role issue never existed and that marriage was always about “love and commitment” by choice between two equal parties free to create the relationship they want.

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