current divorce rate<\/a> is around 40 percent. Don’t know about you, but I want the foundations of my particular civilization to be a tad more stable than that.
\nFor example, would you fly if 4 out of 10 planes were known to crash? Or drive if 4 out of 10 roads turned into sinkholes?
\nMarriage laws in the US have been the purview of the states from the beginning. And talk about hypocrisy: I don’t recall any federal constitutional challenges in the past to state laws that are anti-miscegenation or pro-polygamy.
\nThe great sociologist George Bush opined that marriage provides the best structure for raising kids. Oh, PLEASE. In George’s twisted world (the same one that brought you Weapons of Mass Destruction), no stepdads are rapists and no moms beat their kids.
\nMaybe he should watch a couple of episodes of Dr. Phil.
\nThe gay couples that I have known are as wise or as foolish as straight people when it comes to marriage. Some folks need a meal ticket, some need a status symbol, and some are actually in love.
\nIf anyone wants to make book on a deal with a 40 percent tank rate, G*d bless ’em, I sez. None of my business, or George Bush’s, for that matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Like allergy season or termites, the Right Wing’s favorite wedge issue, gay marriage, returns this week, infesting the airways with the usual rot about foundations and civilization and the family, et al.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}