Italy's defenders of Family and Family Values are hitting the streets to let Italian authorities know that they are committed to 'protecting the family.'
What does protecting the family mean?
For centuries, part of family life was dad out whoring around on pay day, or looting day, or pogrom day, whatever it was that they called it. Family life used to be a well-spring of violence. There probably is still a lot of family violence. But we've been June Cleavered mercilessly and we like to pretend that 'family' is the ultimate good, as in sacred. As if!
"Family" has definitions from one end of the 'good-bad' continuum to the other. Just as there are people from one end to the other. Didn't you once think that if a girl (remember, I can only speak from a male point of view) was pretty she had to really nice to be around? If you're like me, you know better now, but you've buried the memories on how you found that out.
I want same sex marriages. I want polygamy and polyandry and line marriages and part time marriages and secret marriages and enemy marriages and partial marriages and concubines and semi-concubine and cucumber concubines...
Humans are family-oriented, but there are no rules, NO RULES, about what a family is! When it comes to families, they should be all they can be!
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Italians protecting the family? Are they making Italian Authorities an offer they cannot refuse?
There are a couple different scenarios I could live with in your set of examples, but I have to draw the line with 'cucumber concubines'. -I have a hard enough time beating out the competition of items that require batteries.
My question with opposition to gay marriage is always this: Would you rather have gay people having sex with as many people as they can, or would you like them to have monogamous relationships? If you're anti-gay sex, it seems getting them married off is your greatest hope, as from what I understand, sex after marriage is nothing more than a punchline to many a hackneyed standup routine.
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