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Got this from a friend’s Facebook status:

John & Kate plus 8 ….. Another high profile deeply christian couple throwing away marriage? Mel Gibson? The Palin Family.. Just so weird to see all the Christian leaders Bashing Gay Marriage while not addressing the state of the straight marriages.

I don’t know who John and Kate is, but from the chatter on Twitter, I’m guessing it is a reality TV couple. but has me thinking, if conservatives didn’t have same-sex marriage to demonize and blame as the enemy that will destroy marriage, would they have to admit that heterosexuals are doing a pretty good job of ripping the institution to shreds al on their own! Especially by such ardent and vocal proponents of traditional family values, like Mel Gibson! Here is a guy, highly religious (or so he was always advertised as being) who, on TV recently described how it was “love at first site” when he met his current girlfriend, who is now pregnant while he is still married and in a divorce.

I think same-sex marriage can only help the institution of marriage, when couples who have been together for 5 years.. 1o years (like my partner and I).. 15 years.. or longer are still together, not because of the marriage license or their religious doctrine, but because they want to be together and be a family! No matter if we are talking about Religious Marriage or Civil Marriage the high profile couples  listed above demonstrate that marriage is a serious commitment, but that being religious, in and of itself, doesn’t make a marriage work.