All I'm going to say on it...

[lithera]

I believe marriage should be a beautiful thing that lasts between until you both die.

It should be an ideal.

It seems to have become a formality. Something you do to change your legal status and the way you are taxed. It feels to me that it had become another victim of the throw away culture that seems to be fostered in America right now, one where if it doesn't work, you just get a new one, not taking responsiblity for your actions or feeling any need to try to fix something before just getting rid of it.

Talking about the sanctity of marriage in a culture which has shows like "Who Wants to Marry a Millionare" is absurd. It is obvious that any respect we had for the institution is already gone when we can put something so disrespectful on TV and have millions of Americans watch it.

I do not believe that marriage is for everyone nor to I think it should be. It is something you should decide with your partner and enter into with your eyes wide open, regardless of race, gender, religion or anything else like that. I have been to more than one wedding that could not be legally recognized and am proud to have done so.

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Re: Dangerous topic

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I think the institution of marriage should be an ideal, not nessicarily that any one specific marriage should be ideal, if that makes sense. All of the specific marriages are works in progress, or at least should be, towards that ideal. Nothing is ever perfecr nor, in many cases, should it be.