Why are politicans talking about the importance and sanctity of marriage?

Question

How can anyone allow a politician to talk about preserving and protecting marriage and keep a straight face?

Answer 1

It's all about being an election year

1. An attempt to rally the republican base.
2. An attempt to paint a liberal, gay face on the democratic party
3. An attempt to motivate prejudices
4. An attempt to move America's focus off of other issues
5. An attempt to keep democrats on the defense because if you are too busy defending yourself, you can't point out flaws of the other side... be offense.

Answer 2

I agree it's a joke and an election year ploy. Rolling Stone did a great article just a little while ago about how the gay marriage issue has taken the place of racial issues as a way to get bigots to the polls. In the 1960s more than 70% of Americans opposed interracial marriages and that was an issue used by the right to manipulate voters - this is no different.

There is so much irony to all of this. Divorce rates are around 60%. Heterosexual married couples are cheating like crazy. People get married on TV shows to total strangers. What % of these same Congressmen have cheated on their wives do you think? I say 80-90%. They portray gays as promiscuous sluts and then when they want to settle down to traditional monogamous relationships they try and stop them.

Answer 3

Marriage is a binding contract that seeks to protect the offspring of the marriage. A family is a building block of society, and a single parents have a hard time coping with raising children alone. Kids are not supposed to learn everything from school, they need to learn the fundamentals at home. If the family is a single parent and that parent is the bread-provider, at the end of the day most single parents want to rest and prepare for the next day's work. Proper parenting is a full-time job, not a part-time job. Get it now?

Answer 4

Dan was way ahead of his time, and people mocked him for it. The truth hurts sometimes.

And for those concerned about children growing up in poverty, we should know this: marriage is probably the best anti-poverty program of all.
-- Vice President Dan Quayle addressing the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, 5/19/92


It doesn't help matters when prime time TV has Murphy Brown -- a character who supposedly epitomizes today's intelligent, highly paid, professional woman -- mocking the importance of fathers, by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another `lifestyle choice'. I know it is not fashionable to talk about moral values, but we need to do it. Even though our cultural leaders in Hollywood, network TV, the national newspapers routinely jeer at them, I think that most of us in this room know that some things are good, and other things are wrong. Now it's time to make the discussion public.
-- Vice President Dan Quayle addressing the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco

Answer 5

Well, one is to distract us from Iraq. The other is to cover their bullshit about how gays can't marry. I'm really not for gays getting married, in fact I'm against it but if you're going to use preserving the sanctity of marriage then they should outlaw divorce because it says "till death do us part." it doesn't say "till I get tired of you"

I'm for civil unions, I'm against gay marriage. I'm for them having the same rights as a married couple, I'm just against them calling it marriage even though love is the marriage of two souls. Even though some would argue that gays don't have souls I disagree with that.

Answer 6

Because without the sanctity of marriage, people begin to enter a promiscuous lifestyle which leads to many single parents which bloats the welfare class and puts more people on the federal government's bill.

Marriage leads to happy families fulfilling the American dream and more willful taxpayers who don't require social services ...

Answer 7

It is because most voters support the sanctity of marriage and they're just giving the voters what they want for the next election.

Answer 8

To distract us from Iraq.

I never keep a straight face. I laugh all the time, with their personal tales of infidelity and divorce.

Sanctity or sanctimonious?

Answer 9

Because we don't exercise our prerogative which is to decide what is important for us to debate. We allow political charlatans and "jourtalisman" to gear us toward non issues like that one so that they have the latitude wreck havoc in our lives for their own benefit. How debating two consenting adults marrying help us solve the problems of : HAIDS, HUNGER, ILLITERACY and so on?

Answer 10

They talk about that to keep everyone attention away from the enormous bloody fiasco that is the war in Iraq.