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I mentally made a "wife" specification and started a search.
Literally brought tears to my eyes, so funny. Coot, that is so you. I'm still laughing!...OMG Neat story, bud. Thanks for sharing.
Not a lot I can really add to what's been said about marriage. So many have said so well, but I know gays/lesbians that really do want to own the term marriage along with the legal ramifications. They really feel their ‘alternative�?relationship is no difference from that between a man and a woman.
Funny story. Two kids we cared about got married. The large, very dominating female dressed as the groom. The more diminutive retiring female dressed as the bride. They were so cute/handsome! And, they were sweet kids. We enjoyed their ceremony and reception. Years later, after the 'groom' had gotten her graduate degree in physics and a good job, she gave up said job to become a mother of two. ~shock!~ The wife and I had always assumed the small one would be a mother, if it ever came to that.
In a hetero-relationship you can't choose who gets to be dad, and who gets to be mom. I have no problems with gays/lesbians being afforded the same legal guarantees as male/females, but the word 'marriage' simply has male/female connotations for me.
China's policy of one family one child is not at fault for the genocide against female babies there. Millennium of cultural indoctrination that makes people believe their sons will take care of them financially in their old age and their daughters will 'belong' to another family after marriage is the culprit. Sadly the killing of female babies has even been a recent phenomenon in India, and there is no strictly enforced birth limit there (unfortunately). I seem to recall being at a seminar in the last decade sometime where someone presented a paper claiming there was beginning to be a gradual decline in the birthrate in India, and the presenter felt the burgeoning middle class, since the opening of India's economy, was the deciding factor. As people become more secure in their own economic future they are less likely to feel a compulsion to have male sons ‘for the future.�?Hopefully this will bode well for female babies born in both India and China.
I think the term should be reserved for male members of the Bush oligarchy.
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