More marriage silliness ? marry yourself!

I have covered the topic of marriage fairly extensively on my site. ?Under that large umbrella of ?marriage? you can find posts with popular buzz phrases such as ?traditional marriage,? and ?gay marriage? prefaced with pro- or anti- as appropriate.

In this post from February, I discussed the Ninth Circuit?s Court of Appeals decision to declare Proposition 8 as unconstitutional because it, ?serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California.? ?In that post from February I wrote:

If the freedom to marry whom we choose possesses the ability to elevate our human dignity, then all limitations on marriage should be done away with, right?? I mean, this is serious business!? We can?t allow people?s dignity to lie in ruin when all people need is the freedom to marry whom they wish.? If people want to marry their pets, their siblings, their pet rock, then we should let them, right?? To not allow it would be, in the Ninth Circuit?s language, ?to officially reclassify their relationships and families as inferior.?

Not surprisingly, some of my readers took issue with my view, especially with the reference to the silly notion about people marrying their pets or pet rocks. ?After all, who would ever want to do that? ?Believe?me, they are out there.

But now enter the next bit of silliness in the marriage arena ? marrying yourself!!

This article in the May 25th edition of the Huffington Post tells the uplifting story of?Nadine Schweigert, a 36 year old divorcee, who married herself in a ceremony to celebrate ?how far she has come in her life? since her divorce six years ago. ?She even managed to get a couple minutes on with Anderson Cooper.

Look I?m happy Nadine got her groove back and kicked the booze and the cigarettes, while dropping 50 pounds. ?Undoubtedly, that was a lot of hard work and took a tremendous amount of will. ?But marrying yourself? ?Seriously?

But, as I said in my post back in February, if?people want to marry their pet rocks, ?there wouldn?t be any legal basis to dismiss their claim based on how the Ninth Circuit and other activist judges have ruled in recent years.? ?Now I suppose that logic (if you can call it that) applies to even marrying yourself.

Does this mean that relationships, the thing society is to suppose to value no matter who it is between, the thing protected by a liberal judiciary, should now include the relationship we have with ourselves? ?How much further can people push the envelope in redefining relationships and/or marriage. ?Heck, not only do you not need another person to get married, you can marry an inanimate object, or yourself!

This all sounds like the plot of really bad ?reality TV show.?

And to top it all off?Green Lantern is now gay!

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