I had to google the word "spiel" just now, to check the spelling.
One result was a random blog entitled "my spiel." (Clever.) It said something about a logical approach to the issue of homosexual marriage that reminded me of a Dr. Rapinchuk class, so I clicked. Bad idea. It was from the opposing side, and, while I am not afraid of their arguments, it pains me terribly to read them. I only got about a paragraph in, but this quote struck me because it is sadly, admittedly, true:
In her essay “Against Marriage” Claudia Card asserts that we should “be reluctant to put our activist energy into attaining legal equity with heterosexuals in marriage—not because the existing discrimination against us is in any way justifiable, but because this institution is so deeply flawed that it seems to be unworthy of emulation and reproduction,” (Card, p. 88). . . .Marriage is not a successful institution as it stands. The push to extend the reach of this troubled system seems a problematic ambition. . .The world should never look to us, as long as we look just like them.
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Why do people get married when their spouse is chosen for them, and how come those marriages tend to last longer than love-marriages? Cultures with arranged marriages must have a different view on what marriage is about, and I wish to have a deeper understanding. Perhaps they have the key to success. Or they lack the expectations love-marriages tend to place on the spouse to make one happy or feel loved or fulfilled. I'm finding that to really love my husband and protect my marriage, there is a costly price to pay, a lot to give up, a dieing to one's self. It promotes maturity and selflessness and it's hard and it hurts some. Perhaps our culture perverts the institution of marriage and falsely promotes it as something to gain in the pursuit of happiness... to its demise and tragic failure. Perhaps it's a conspiracy...
Such Truth, Kourt.
Keep it coming. ;)
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