Every one has the right to live Happily Ever After …

I’ve never been a big fan of marriage even though I sat in one for about 20 years.  Don’t ask and I won’t tell.  I’ve found it to be a major constraint.   I found compromise is a virtue only to those who lack ambition and leave it at that.

However, I know I’m not the least bit in the main stream about a lot of things; mostly about any kind of religion.  It takes a lot of commitment and intellectual compromise to support religions developed back before high level reading, writing, arithmetic, and science were invented.   I even think that the term “DARK AGES” and “Age of Enlightenment” are pretty self-explanatory but then if there’s a god gene, it just doesn’t seem to run in my family and hasn’t for a long time.

Still, I’ve noticed a generational thing surrounding the marriage issue as well as old time religion.  The older you are, the more you insist it’s one man, one woman, and it’s best for children.  I just think it’s unnecessary unless you really want to give away your assets, time, and dreams to some body else who can drag you through court and take even more by the time you’re done.  My kids have yet to get married and think it’s something best put off to when you’re nearly dead any way (say somewhere between 30 and 40).  The kids and I think any one who wants to be able to do it should be able to get married.  My parents were both pretty accepting of gay people, but their generation just can’t see gay marriage.  In that way, my family appears to be pretty typical.

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