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I can already hear the grumbles and the endless tisk tisks.
The lesbian couple who helped bring gay marriage to America by pushing for its ultimate legality in Massachusetts has…gasp…filed for divorce.
Great Caesar’s Ghost! Stop the presses!
You mean…shaking head in disbelief…gays and lesbians are capable of divorce, too????
Of course they are. And it doesn’t take too much imagination to predict that opponents of gay marriage will easily use this as an example of why gay marriage is a farce in their opinion.
“SEE??” they will say. “All that passionate fighting for rights, and look what they did with it!! The marriage ENDED! And so soon after they tied the knot!!”
Yes, it’s true. A logical person might ponder whether Julie and Hillary Goodridge did the right thing in marrying in the first place.
BUT. BUT…the same could be said of the millions of HETEROSEXUALS in America (and the WORLD) who have parted ways. I always find it interesting that the biggest opponents of gay marriage always frame the debate in terms of “defending” traditional marriage (between a man and a woman). The only thing traditional marriage needs defending against is the 50% divorce rate that HETEROSEXUALS created!!
In other words, have heterosexuals done such a valiant job in defending the sacred institution so many are now passionately trying to defend from gays and lesbians?
This story of the Goodridge divorce is not proof that gays and lesbians shouldn’t marry. If it were, then marriage would have to rightfully be taken away as an institution for heterosexuals.
It is only proof that lovers can be fools sometimes. Couples make mistakes. Things can fall apart. Love is hard. And marriage can be even harder.
And it’s just as true for gays and lesbians as it is for anyone else.
Some people, and the Catholic Church, think divorce is always wrong / sinful.
Sometimes these people are ones who have been lucky enough to have lived in happy family situations. However, they do tend to change their views when personal experience hits them too, eg their sons or daughters get divorced, and suddenly they can see the other side of the argument.
I know a good person who is upset because as a divorced person, she cannot get the priest's blessing, meanwhile her nephew, in and out of prison but not divorced, can get the full blessing.
Come on Catholic Church, sort out your contradictions. It does not lay out the details of the marriage ceremony in the Bible so you cannot use that as an excuse for your 'no divorce: no exceptions' rule.
Looks to me like gays are no better in marriage than the heterosexuals are. The only thing the gays seem to have done was add to the increase of divorces and more broken families.