The Devil is in the Details

Pat Robertson believes that Gay Marriage is wrong, immoral, and is the “beginning in a long downward slide.”  According to him, if we support Gays it will lead to God destroying America.  He states that every civilization who has ever supported homosexuality or has turned away from traditional marriage was destroyed.

Interesting.

Just recently, when someone wrote to him about a friend whose wife has Alzheimer’s, Robertson suggested the man divorce his wife and “start all over.”  When confronted about the whole “’til death do us part’” clause in most wedding vows, his response was to point out that Alzheimer’s is a “kind of death.”

He is a “kind of ” hypocritical dick.

I have written new vows that seem more in line with his thinking about traditional marriages:

I take you to be my wedded wife. To have and to hold (when I want you, and to discard when things don’t go as planned), from this day forward (or until a day in the future which I deem the end of our marriage), for better, (but not) for worse, for richer, for poorer (you agree to no more than a 5% decrease in annual earnings), in (brief) sickness or in health, to love and to cherish ’til death do us part (or things that are not actually death, but I reserve the right to call a “kind of” death after which I will dump you off at the nursing home and “start all over”).  And hereto I pledge you my faithfulness (some restrictions apply).

Now, don’t misunderstand me.  I am not judging people for ending marriages for reasons they felt appropriate or safe.  I believe most divorces only come about after people have worked hard at saving the marriage.

I just can’t get over the hypocrisy of him saying that God will destroy us if we turn against traditional marriage and allow gay people to wed, but it is perfectly okay for non-gay people to get married and bail out when our partner gets sick.  Isn’t that turning away from our wedding vows and traditional marriage?

This isn’t about the sanctity of marriage.  It is about not wanting to give rights to another group to enjoy something that we haven’t even figured out yet.