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 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 04:47:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ashley Davenport http://www.giantgayrepellentumbrella.com/2009/05/the-truthe-comes-from-maine/comment-page-1/#comment-569 Ashley Davenport Tue, 19 Apr 2011 23:21:07 +0000 http://www.giantgayrepellentumbrella.com/?p=92#comment-569 This website is hilarious. I love that people are really starting stand up for themselves even more publicly than ever, and are able to joke about being discriminated against at the same time. The argument that gay marriage will make adultery seem ok is total bs. What in the world does two men or women getting married in Florida have to do with some pr*ck cheating on his wife in California? Did I hear someone say "nothing?" Can they just be honest with themselves? "Almost everyone is bisexual, even just a little bit. If we make gay sex/marriage ok, then it'll be harder for us to resist doing that co-worker we fantasize about when we're in bed with our spouse. We're too immature to coooopppe." shutup, This website is hilarious. I love that people are really starting stand up for themselves even more publicly than ever, and are able to joke about being discriminated against at the same time. The argument that gay marriage will make adultery seem ok is total bs. What in the world does two men or women getting married in Florida have to do with some pr*ck cheating on his wife in California? Did I hear someone say “nothing?” Can they just be honest with themselves? “Almost everyone is bisexual, even just a little bit. If we make gay sex/marriage ok, then it’ll be harder for us to resist doing that co-worker we fantasize about when we’re in bed with our spouse. We’re too immature to coooopppe.” shutup,

]]> 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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