“Marriage will become a ‘plaything’ for the narcissistic masses being raised by our society to believe that if you want something get it, and if it doesn’t work out to your satisfaction get something else.” I assume you meant “Marriage HAS BECOME…” since clearly, long before the concept of gay marriage was brought up as more than a joke, marriages in this country had become something that you could enter into with the idea that if you got bored or something better came up, you could always bail out.
That being said, folks need to quit confusing the legal concept of marriage with the religious concept of marriage. When I married my wife, I had one ceremony that I considered binding for my lifetime, that had deep significance, and that had no legal standing at all. Later, we stood up in front of a Judge and made it legal. Both ceremonies accomplished something different; had we wanted to, we could have done both at the same time via a single ceremony.
I can’t help but suspect that this will be a non-issue in a couple hundred years… speaking of which, marriage as we know it is a relatively new thing; I believe it really started in the middle ages. Of course, that concept is bound to start a whole new chain of side arguments, so I will let it alone.
