Hallmark be damned... not really
OK. I don't really mean exactly that. If you have read my other Blog entries, you just know I'm going to make sence of it later on. They are a fine company, and they make some fine products. I use them often. More so on a day like today. It's Valentines Day and love is in the air.
Valentines day, and the days leading up to it are about the only time a guy can go looking at frilly clothing and no one around is wondering if they are buying it for themselves. Its the only time we can go to a card store and look at sappy cards and buy flowers and all that.
It is the one day when most everyone who is married takes a moment to say something special to the person who committed themselved to them for life legally, and before all those present and perhaps before God.
Sadly, today there are some who will not be able to take that moment. They are madly in love, they have committed them selves to someone who they want to spend the rest of their life with, and yet, they are denied the term Married.
They are Homosexual, Gay, Lesbian, same sex couples.
It is sad to me when our society says it does not want to reconicize these unions. I understand how some - most of them religous and politicaly involved - claim that to allow them to use the term Married to define their marriage would take away from marriage. So we hear terms such as "Preservation of Marriage" and so on.
Why?
The guy next to you cleans toilets for a living, and he gets married to a woman who is a fortune teller. And they have a marriage license.
The woman at the next table from you reads trashy novels and likes to do strange things on her body with chocolate, and she marries a guy who makes porno films of her and others, and they get to have a marriage license.
I don't hear anyone yet saying we need to limit marriage to only people of a certain education or stature in life or ecomony, but might that not be far off?
Often times it seem these "We have to preserve marriage" people will say that the Bible condems same genders being married. but America is not a country ran by religion. Or at least it should not be. It is not a Theocracy. Iran is a Theocracy and many who want to not allow gays to get married also condem Iran and condemmed the Taliban which was a religions government. They say we had to have have to invade these countries for just that reason.
Back to Hallmark. The cards for married people to give to one another? Hallmark does not sell them here in the US. They can't.
But, I hope if you, like me are madly, deeply in love with someone, I hope you took a moment to tell them how you feel and how you appreciate what they do for you.
Valentines day, and the days leading up to it are about the only time a guy can go looking at frilly clothing and no one around is wondering if they are buying it for themselves. Its the only time we can go to a card store and look at sappy cards and buy flowers and all that.
It is the one day when most everyone who is married takes a moment to say something special to the person who committed themselved to them for life legally, and before all those present and perhaps before God.
Sadly, today there are some who will not be able to take that moment. They are madly in love, they have committed them selves to someone who they want to spend the rest of their life with, and yet, they are denied the term Married.
They are Homosexual, Gay, Lesbian, same sex couples.
It is sad to me when our society says it does not want to reconicize these unions. I understand how some - most of them religous and politicaly involved - claim that to allow them to use the term Married to define their marriage would take away from marriage. So we hear terms such as "Preservation of Marriage" and so on.
Why?
The guy next to you cleans toilets for a living, and he gets married to a woman who is a fortune teller. And they have a marriage license.
The woman at the next table from you reads trashy novels and likes to do strange things on her body with chocolate, and she marries a guy who makes porno films of her and others, and they get to have a marriage license.
I don't hear anyone yet saying we need to limit marriage to only people of a certain education or stature in life or ecomony, but might that not be far off?
Often times it seem these "We have to preserve marriage" people will say that the Bible condems same genders being married. but America is not a country ran by religion. Or at least it should not be. It is not a Theocracy. Iran is a Theocracy and many who want to not allow gays to get married also condem Iran and condemmed the Taliban which was a religions government. They say we had to have have to invade these countries for just that reason.
Back to Hallmark. The cards for married people to give to one another? Hallmark does not sell them here in the US. They can't.
But, I hope if you, like me are madly, deeply in love with someone, I hope you took a moment to tell them how you feel and how you appreciate what they do for you.
posted by Both Sides of My Brain at 11:45 PM
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