Warriors marched into battle last November and wielded their voter registration cards in a valiant effort to defend the sanctity of marriage. About 75 percent of voters in Texas were in favor of a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage because they viewed the efforts of gays who were trying to enter into such unions as aggressive attacks on the institution. Well, in democracy majority rules, so the sacred union will live on, integrity uncompromised, right? Right?!
Not so much. From what Ed Board has seen, heterosexuals don’t need any help from homosexuals in invalidating marriage.
The Associated Press reported on Jan. 5 that Florida couple Sally Erickson and Renzie Davidson were divorcing after just three months of marriage. How, Ed Board asks, could a marriage go downhill with such an air tight prenuptual that included such stipulations as “mandatory backrubs and a $5 nagging fee?”
If your prenup has to detail who will be cooking breakfast on which days, maybe you should take a few days to meditate on whether or not this is the person you really want to spend the rest of your life with. If a prenup is necessary at all, that indicates some degree of doubt in your choice to be with that one person for the rest of your lives.
With the sudden surge in reality television shows aimed at forcing hapless fools into settling on a soul mate from a group of twenty or so potentials (chosen by casting directors who surely have the best of intentions) it’s no wonder that this country has a 50 percent divorce rate and a penchant for drive-thru marriages.
In early 2004, Britney Spears, role model for teenage girls everywhere, married a friend in Las Vegas. The marriage lasted about 55 hours, give or take.
Why is it that people rarely question celebrity marriages that have the same life expectancy as fruit flies, but are so quick to point to homosexual unions as the end-all that will cause the ultimate demise of the insitution of marriage?
Marriage has already been made a mockery of by the Fox Network’s show “Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire?”Ed Board has heard friends say that there is a target age for when they would like to see themselves married. It seems to us that the focus should be less on timing and more on the person.
It seems to Ed Board that Americans either lack the patience to make sound decisions about matrimony, or they just don’t take marriage seriously anymore.
We here at Ed Board encourage SMU students to think carefully about the vows before ever speaking them.
