[Magdalen] Ireland

[ME Michaud]

Yes, I agree. We (as an example) have never wished to marry (yea,
e'en after forty-nine years together), agreeing that, even though
marriage is built on a heterosexual model, it doesn't even work
for most heterosexuals.

I can't help suspecting the Church's opposition has to do with
control. The Roman Catholic Church has always pressed for
control of marriage (and still refuses to marry people who are
divorced). More of the same, I guess.

I find the fact that people, gay or straight, still wish to marry
a testament to the endearing hopefulness embedded in all
us human beings.
-M


On Monday, May 25, 2015, <sally.davies at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is a random thought apropos of nothing much, but it occurred to me
> that if previous restraints on contraception achieved anything, it is to
> expand a vigorous young population with a mind of its own, social media to
> start its own conversations, and the critical mass to make a difference.
>
> I'm still waiting for someone to spell out to me how I (were I a
> conservative Catholic or Protestant) would experience a "disaster" if 1,
> 2....n gay and/or lesbian couples form lifelong bonds, support one
> another's families, raise children, grow old together and so forth.
>
> it's more likely that the gay or lesbian couples would be exposed to the
> "disaster" that is modern marriage. I find it astonishing and a triumph of
> hope over experience that same sex couples actually want to get married,
> given the painful failure of so many heterosexual marriages. But hope is
> what people do, and they do love as well, and if same sex couples want to
> try for lifelong faithfulness...whatever else it might be I'm not getting
> the "disaster" bit
>