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Old 07-02-2013, 12:25 PM
 
Location: Central Texas
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We can expect marriage to continue to erode now that tax-favored sexual perversion is being considered marriage.
Oh please. Many scientists estimate that about 4% of the population is gay. If only 4% of marrying age people are gay, and the same % of gays choose to marry as non-gays, the actual number of marriages by gay people is damned small. Inconsequential.

Oh - there should be no tax favoritism of married people. Unfortunately lots of people think the federal government needs to try to modify our behavior through taxes.
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Old 07-02-2013, 12:48 PM
 
Location: Foot of the Rockies
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Because the "time to endure" is shorter? Good thinking.
Very funny!

I mean people are taking marriage more seriously.
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Old 07-02-2013, 01:06 PM
 
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I think the "good guys" are realizing what a sham it is. The so called "bad guys" have all the fun. Who the hell would want to be a husband when you could be a "player".
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Old 07-02-2013, 01:13 PM
 
Location: Portland, Oregon
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Marriage has fallen because it's been seen as a legal contract and the divorce industry is organized crime.
Well my fiancee and I do love each other and therefore wish to have a legal contract binding us together. Divorce happens due to people either marrying for the wrong reasons or growing apart as a couple for whatever reason.
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Old 07-02-2013, 01:16 PM
 
Location: Portland, Oregon
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I think the "good guys" are realizing what a sham it is. The so called "bad guys" have all the fun. Who the hell would want to be a husband when you could be a "player".
The whole "good guy" thing is nothing more that a guy using self pity to play the victim. Plenty of "good guys" are out dating,in relationships, and getting married, I know this because I am a "good guy" and my fiancee is very happy to have a guy like me in her life.
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Old 07-02-2013, 01:26 PM
 
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http://shine.yahoo.com/love-sex/u-ma...154300674.html

Between 1950 and 2011 the US marriage rate fell "a stunning 66 percent," writes Stephanie Coontz in The New York Times. [b]"If such a decline continued," she adds, "there would be no women getting married by 2043!"
Somebody failed 6th grade math.
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Old 07-02-2013, 01:38 PM
 
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The whole "good guy" thing is nothing more that a guy using self pity to play the victim. Plenty of "good guys" are out dating,in relationships, and getting married, I know this because I am a "good guy" and my fiancee is very happy to have a guy like me in her life.
You may not be aware of how others are living.
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Old 07-02-2013, 01:50 PM
 
Location: Portland, Oregon
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You may not be aware of how others are living.
I know how I am living, and when I hear a guy using the "good guy" excuse, it is nothing more than a self pity attitude.
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Old 07-02-2013, 01:52 PM
 
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Marriage has been dying ever since we allowed divorce. It's just a matter of time when it goes away completely.
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Old 07-02-2013, 02:20 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia Area
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Marriage has been dying ever since we allowed divorce. It's just a matter of time when it goes away completely.
No marriage has been dying ever since contraception became widely accepted.

Contraception renders the marriage act not unlike homosexual acts which is why modern people do not see the difference between two women or men lying together and a man and a woman lying together. All is mutual masturbation and closed off to life. When you think about it only a small percentage of sex acts that are performed today are open to life. While the majority are lust and hedonism.

Contraception is a grave perversion against nature and will cost countless people their souls.

Pius XI, Casti Connubii (31/12/1930)
http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARRIAGE/CASTI.TXT
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