How does marriage change because someone wants to marry the person they love?

Is it so hard to embrace love (You know like Jesus said) instead of the bloodshed and violence now littering our media airwaves? Isn’t marriage for love the very definition of marriage? Considering people want to marry because they are in love, have done so for centuries, marriage must have changed significantly since it began.

Oh wait! That sounds more like infidelity issues where someone would be so concerned about their relationship when others want to have one. Did they choose the right path?

Isn’t it the same as saying someone’s love is more important than other’s?

Lets talk about the inherent insecurity suggested by this; that we have to restrict others from participating in the luxury of marriage. Are marriages today so fragile that allowing people to marry those they love will destroy current and future relationships? Surely that is why the divorce rate rises.

Lets talk about the sanctity of the institution protected by marriage between "one man and one woman". Considering that, as a joke, Britney Spears was able to marry should suggest enough about the sanctity of marriage. Ok, so it was a joke! Then again, ask Donald Trump (or the many other proponents of this atrocity) why ask for a pre-nuptial if the sanctity of marriage is so important.

Slippery slopes - What about further restricting of rights?

Every citizen deserves an equal and fair opportunity (not just some people). We cannot start down that slippery slope. In fact, why is it so concerning and horrible that people might want to marry?

Let me ask you this: What is the next amendment? No labor rights, no right to redress grievances, or no right to vote? They flaunt the “slippery slope” without mentioning that such an amendment is only the beginning process of taking more rights away.

The Supreme Court and the laws of this nation have expanded rights over the years. Any sort of amendment that restricts rights or segregates people is a complete reversal of that. It begins a “slippery slope” of which rights are next. It begs the question of what then becomes more sacred: the First amendment or these future restrictive amendments (i.e. new “security” requirements). In that case, why don’t we just do away with the Bill of Rights? (Then the NSA (a.k.a. Gestapo) activities would be perfectly legal).

Is it a failed philosophy

Isn’t it ironic that we can attempt to impeach a president who mishandled his marriage (harming his daughter and wife), but when one mishandles our country and causes the terror in war, there is unmistakable silence? I am having trouble here. Is the radical right smear and deception worse since it affects a few countries or marriage infidelity that affected a few people?

This follows that logic of using issues like marriage to be the” most important” issue. What is the reason for this debate? They can’t use real issues since they have only more problems and no solutions (as if they had a solution for marriage problems). They have proved this by making it more difficult to drink from the cup of the “American dream”.

We know from the experience over the past decades that conservative philosophy and politics have failed America, its people and our kids. Just remember Katrina and how well it worked for the people swept away by flood waters.

What do Americans believe is most important in their lives?

Restricting rights through a constitutional amendment and building a new Berlin Wall on the southern border is more important than
• maintaining fiscal and budget discipline
• educating our kids,
• researching future technologies so that we are not beholden to dictators or need to perhaps destroy wildlife refuges,
• building strategic growth initiatives
• and providing equal opportunity.

Get serious about real issues

We have to give Americans a real solution and answers rather than attempting to be more Republican. We have to be more American!

WE as Americans have a responsibility
to our community,
to our family,
to our country,
and to our future.

We cannot turn our backs on them now when they need it the most! It is our purpose and our goal to help our society become prosperous again for everyone instead of for those few lucky fellows. It is our purpose to leave our world better than what we found it so that our children do not say our names with scorn.

More importantly, it is our responsibility and our calling. This is what JFK was saying when he said that “here on Earth, God’s work must truly be our own.”

Remind your co-workers of this.
Remind your clergy of this.
Remind your neighbors of this.
Remind your elected officials of this.

That we are all in this together!
WE as Americans will make things better if we work on the ideas that can help our society rather than focus upon divisive and destructive proposals.
An anti-marriage amendment does not address the perils of our country and clearly is the wrong direction for our country!