Sometimes you find out a marriage is over when you come home and your house is empty except for a note from your soon-to-be former wife. Sometimes it happens after a fight. Sometimes it happens when you find out about an affair.

I found out my marriage will soon be over in a different way--Larry Bowler and Randy Thomasson of www.VoteYesMarriage.com told me.

According to Bowler, the California Supreme Court is about to "destroy marriage," including, presumably, my own. This is going to happen because the Court is apparently about allow the 2% of the population who are gay to marry. Read the full story of the catastrophe here.

Ignorant me, I thought that marriage was under greater threat from the fact that hundreds of thousands of innocent men have been booted out of their homes on  restraining orders based on false charges. Or that courts allow children of divorce to be dragged half way across the country so vindictive mothers can exclude their fathers from their lives. Or that stacked domestic violence laws allow men to be jailed and ruined with little evidence. Or that the abusive child support system often traps low income men in a hopeless spiral of debt. Or that family courts are allowing military parents to be permanently removed from their children's lives while they're overseas. I was wrong--it's gays being allowed to marry that is the real threat.

The Bowler/Thomasson announcement is the second terrible blow to my marriage in the past six months. In October, Thomasson and his group informed me that in signing a bill to allow California gay couples to file taxes as if they were married, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger had "put the last nail in the coffin for marriage between a man and a woman in California" and "Terminated [the] Last Piece of Marriage."

The worst part about October's events it is that these tax changes may also lure my teenage son into the gay lifestyle. If Thomasson is correct about the dire threat gays pose to heterosexuals and heterosexuality, perhaps the only thing that's kept my son from doing it so far was the tax disadvantage he knew he'd face one day...

This entry was posted on Thursday, April 5th, 2007 at 6:41 pm and is filed under Marriage, Divorce/Separation/Child Custody, Gays, Gay Marriage, Christian Conservatives, Catholics, Christians. You can trackback from your own site.