Comments on: Love and Marriage: Only Recently Together Like a Horse and Carriage http://www.sourapplesblog.com/2008/11/17/love-and-marriage-only-recently-go-together-like-a-horse-and-carriage/ Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 19 May 2012 12:17:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Ryan O'Brien http://www.sourapplesblog.com/2008/11/17/love-and-marriage-only-recently-go-together-like-a-horse-and-carriage/comment-page-1/#comment-54 Ryan O'Brien Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:33:44 +0000 http://elliottcallahan.com/blog/?p=44#comment-54 The definition and purpose of marriage is clearly not a constant but a social construct which changes with custom and time. But I have to take exception to the following quote at the link given: "[T]he word 'marriage' is the constant. If you’re married to a woman and you and she go to Albania, one of you has a heart attack and the other wants to see the person in the emergency room and you say, 'We are married' they're going to treat you as married in Albania under their laws and customs, no matter how different those laws and customs might be here in the United States." Yes, if your names are Tom and Mary. However, if your name is Gerald Fitzpatrick and you legally married Patrick Fitzgerald in Connecticut or the Netherlands or even South Africa, for God's sake, I doubt the Albanians would treat you as married. They may not even treat you at all. Or they may treat you with a syringe of cyanide. It'll be a long slog before same-gender marriage is universally recognized since the concept is so relatively new and radical. But I say if Gerald fits Patrick and Patrick fits Gerald, they should have the right to marry and have that marriage recognized universally. The definition and purpose of marriage is clearly not a constant but a social construct which changes with custom and time. But I have to take exception to the following quote at the link given:

“[T]he word ‘marriage’ is the constant. If you’re married to a woman and you and she go to Albania, one of you has a heart attack and the other wants to see the person in the emergency room and you say, ‘We are married’ they’re going to treat you as married in Albania under their laws and customs, no matter how different those laws and customs might be here in the United States.”

Yes, if your names are Tom and Mary. However, if your name is Gerald Fitzpatrick and you legally married Patrick Fitzgerald in Connecticut or the Netherlands or even South Africa, for God’s sake, I doubt the Albanians would treat you as married. They may not even treat you at all. Or they may treat you with a syringe of cyanide.

It’ll be a long slog before same-gender marriage is universally recognized since the concept is so relatively new and radical. But I say if Gerald fits Patrick and Patrick fits Gerald, they should have the right to marry and have that marriage recognized universally.

]]> By: Ryan O'Brien http://www.sourapplesblog.com/2008/11/17/love-and-marriage-only-recently-go-together-like-a-horse-and-carriage/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Ryan O'Brien Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:33:44 +0000 http://elliottcallahan.com/blog/?p=44#comment-18 The definition and purpose of marriage is clearly not a constant but a social construct which changes with custom and time. But I have to take exception to the following quote at the link given: "[T]he word 'marriage' is the constant. If you’re married to a woman and you and she go to Albania, one of you has a heart attack and the other wants to see the person in the emergency room and you say, 'We are married' they're going to treat you as married in Albania under their laws and customs, no matter how different those laws and customs might be here in the United States." Yes, if your names are Tom and Mary. However, if your name is Gerald Fitzpatrick and you legally married Patrick Fitzgerald in Connecticut or the Netherlands or even South Africa, for God's sake, I doubt the Albanians would treat you as married. They may not even treat you at all. Or they may treat you with a syringe of cyanide. It'll be a long slog before same-gender marriage is universally recognized since the concept is so relatively new and radical. But I say if Gerald fits Patrick and Patrick fits Gerald, they should have the right to marry and have that marriage recognized universally. The definition and purpose of marriage is clearly not a constant but a social construct which changes with custom and time. But I have to take exception to the following quote at the link given:

“[T]he word ‘marriage’ is the constant. If you’re married to a woman and you and she go to Albania, one of you has a heart attack and the other wants to see the person in the emergency room and you say, ‘We are married’ they’re going to treat you as married in Albania under their laws and customs, no matter how different those laws and customs might be here in the United States.”

Yes, if your names are Tom and Mary. However, if your name is Gerald Fitzpatrick and you legally married Patrick Fitzgerald in Connecticut or the Netherlands or even South Africa, for God’s sake, I doubt the Albanians would treat you as married. They may not even treat you at all. Or they may treat you with a syringe of cyanide.

It’ll be a long slog before same-gender marriage is universally recognized since the concept is so relatively new and radical. But I say if Gerald fits Patrick and Patrick fits Gerald, they should have the right to marry and have that marriage recognized universally.

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