My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue … Read more
Category: marriage
Gay marriage won’t be more of an issue 25 years from now than interracial marriage is today.
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
Gay marriage has jumped out of the closet on to the front page. Everyone from the president of the U.S. to retired four-star general Colin Powell is embracing the issue, now supported by most Americans. Still, a few people, like former First Lady Laura Bush appear to be conflicted.
The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted out a state-by-state strategy to increase the number of judicial decisions redefining marriage without the voice of the people being heard.
Other than marriage, she doesn’t control me and I don’t control her.
The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife’s spirits.
I’ve never really been very good at marriage. It’s one of my failures. I’ve tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me it’s something I’m doing.
The president strongly believes that marriage in this country ought to be between a man and a woman. He also believes it is something that ought to be decided by the people. He doesn’t believe that judges ought to impose their will on the people.
I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.