A 21 year old gay man and a 20 year old straight woman, both art students at the University of Worcester in England have married -- and it has upset the righteous defenders of marriage no end. They say it mocks the sanctity of marriage.
Their stated reason has something to do with art -- they are devoted companions who do all their art work together, even to getting the teachers to grade them as a unit. So they wanted to make their marriage part of their art.
I'm not sure I quite understand the art part of it. But what seems to upset the marriage-defenders so much is that they do not plan to have sex, and each will be free to see other people -- and they claim this is a more honest relationship, because they will be open about it when they do.
How different is this from other companionate marriages that are not sexual? We didn't hear protests from this crowd when astrophysicist Stephen Hawking's nurse married him, and I doubt there was much sex or procreating going on with this man who is paralyzed by ALS and has minimal motor ability to move his body.
How does this mock the sanctity of marriage more than Brittney Spears marrying on a whim in the wee hours after a drunken party, without quite realizing what she was doing? She made babies, only with some other man after she annulled that impulsive ceremony and married someone else, which also ended in a quick divorce so she could marry yet a third -- in between going to prison and rehab for her drug habit. Such a great example of the sanctity of marriage.
No, it's that little three letter word "gay," isn't it? There aren't all that many men paralyzed by ALS marrying, but open the door to saying "gay" and "marriage" in the same sentence, and it seems like a big threat.
But they have to come up with something better than "mocking the sanctity" or "not God's plan for populating the earth" to justify denying this equal protection right to a significant portion of the population.
Ralph
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