Ryan Lanza's Crappiest Day Ever

Yes, my heart breaks for the friends and families of the twenty six innocent people who have been killed today. I can't help but think that Ryan Lanza's day has been pretty crappy too and he has my sympathy (which would be quickly revoked should he turn out to be in any way involved.) What a nightmare scenario. You are going about your day in Hobokin, NJ. It is bad enough that you have that as the starting point. You are minding your own business and then all of a sudden your Twitter and Facebook feeds are blowing up naming you as a mass murderer of children. Your picture is everywhere. You name is mud. And that is not even the worst part! You find out that your mom is dead. Someone you know is certainly dead in your Mom's house. Your father has yet to be located according to the news. Your brother is dead AND a mass murderer of small children. The police show up and take you away in handcuffs and this is filmed for all to see and comment on.

Marriage is what bwings us togetha today

So Obama continues to be president, and the US Supreme Court will be reviewing marriage laws. Albeit this same Supreme Court has a member who thinks homosexuality is akin to beastiality (and oral sex must be a gateway sex?). But there are nine of them for a reason (yes, I had to look that number up. A dozen sounded better to me). I don't understand why people cannot be rational about marriage. Why do you care if Becky and Jane get hitched? This is not a religious thing. It is a practical one. Marriages are legal contracts between the couple and the State. That is it. Sure, some folks like to wrap Christ into their lives and their marriage ceremony and make it magical. But he never married (according to your Bible anyway) so he does not care. Marriage is nothing more than a contract. A powerful contract that enables you to pay joint taxes, own community property, and sit by your loved own's bed side in an ICU. It is the State and the couple agreeing to give one another certain rights and responsibilities within the relationship and within the State. Marriage enables you to commit your spouse should shit get crazy. Marriage enables you to determine the best interest of your partner should s/he be in a coma. Marriage means you do not have to testify against one another in a court of law. Marriage means if you marry a tax cheat, you both lose the house. Marriage means you are a "family" in the highest legal sense. It is a responsibility based on mutual trust and contractual obligation. So, yes marriage must legally involve two human beings. Dogs can't enter into contracts. Asshole. Marriage is not something magical - though it hopefully feels super special. Marriage is not something that will magically make society better or worse. Marriage is not undermined by the people getting married - just their marriages are in the case of poor choices. Marriage is not sacred. If it were, so many of you would not be serially marrying and divorcing within your churches. Marriage is not about having children or raising a family. (Having children is about having children.) Marriage is not something that you should unreasonably limit.