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Throughout history traditional marriage has meant powerful men doing whatever the f*ck they want, whenever the f*ck they want to.

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[[[ So as Newt Gingrich does while standing next to his third wife (who, as was true for Gingrich’s second wife, was previously known as his “adulterous mistress”), Rush Limbaugh will now crusade for Traditional Marriage with his fourth wife (and counting) at his side. As is so often the case, the Traditional Marriage movement is led by people who discard their wives and get new, younger replacements the way most people change underwear. That’s how so many Americans sit on their sofas next to their second and third spouses, with their step-children and half-siblings surrounding them, and explain — without any recognition of the irony — that they’re against same-sex marriage because they believe the law should only recognize Traditional Marriages. And it’s how Rush Limbaugh can hide from his followers that, by demanding state recognition for his fourth “marriage,” he himself believes “that traditional marriage should not have privileged status.” As usual, all of the actual rules of Traditional Marriage are casually discarded when it comes to the law (all that dreary, annoying stuff about “till death do us part” and “in sickness and in health” and “for as long as we both shall live”) and the only one that’s maintained is the one that is easy and cost-free for most Traditional Marriage proponents people to fulfill (the one about needing “a man and a woman”). ]]]

On reading my New Testament again, I see that Jesus said a few things about adultery and divorce. He never said a single thing about homosexuality, though. Hmm. I wonder what that could possibly mean…

Jesus also commanded us to pray for our enemies. So I do. I pray for Mr. Limbaugh and Mr. Beck and Mr. Gingrich and Mr. Phelps and plenty of other folk. May God have mercy on our souls, all of us.