Kira Davis:
The absolute hysteria on the left surrounding revelations of the Pence marriage is completely indicative of their view of marriage and it perfectly illustrates why we on the right were never able to trust them with the concept of marriage during the whole gay marriage debate in the first place.
What the right knew was that what most of the left was talking about providing for the homosexual community was not actually marriage, but a watered down, fantasized version of marriage. Most conservatives like me never believed a gay person shouldn’t be able to enter into a contractual relationship based on romance with another human being. That’s ridiculous and pointless. Pretending gay people don’t want commitments doesn’t make it not real.
What we did have a problem with was the idea that “marriage” as a term was being redefined apart from its actual roots and the definition that is enjoyed and exalted by every culture on this earth.
While the pearl-clutchers at places like HuffPo and Jezebel fret about the “horror” of a man choosing not to spend time alone with another woman out of respect for his wife and her feelings, those of us who have actually been married for a while know exactly what he meant.
Whether or not you would do the same in your own marriage is beside the point. Pence wasn’t scolding anyone for not acting as he did. He was simply explaining that in a strong marriage one doesn’t open the door for temptation or even whispering among one’s community (this is especially important for a politician, don’t you think?).
We live in a country where people celebrate the idea of a woman being required to cover her head and neck lest a man be tempted by her, but Pence gets excoriated like Anthony Weiner at a Twitter headquarters party for even suggesting that showing deference to one’s wife even when there is no need is the duty of a husband. You’d think the feminists would be all over this one. Pence clearly puts his wife first.
Hello?
Marriage is a complicated and nuanced institution. It is a partnership that requires stamina and sacrifice. It is not a piece of paper, or even simply a man-made concept. It is a game changer that transforms who you are as a person and how you view your responsibilities to others.
Those who don’t take marriage seriously – in this case that’s anyone outraged by Pence’s statements about his own marriage – are outraged because they don’t understand that marriage is more than a feeling. They think people who really love each other will never hurt each other, and always make the right choice. That’s so ignorant of literally every second of human nature and so obviously naive it boggles the mind.
Those of us who have been married a while know that a good marriage doesn’t happen by accident. You don’t “fall” into one like you fall in love. Falling in love is the easy part. Being love (the noun) takes effort. Married couples understand that the effort to grow and nourish a marriage means doing things unmarried people might judge as weird or unnecessary.
Having dinner alone with a person of the opposite sex might seem like a little thing, and it is. But over decades of marriage it is the accumulation of little things that will erode even the most solid of foundations.
Some marriage rookies might be surprised to find out the strongest couples become very deliberate about scheduling date nights, scheduling times to talk privately, even scheduling sex sometimes. Doesn’t sound very romantic, does it? It isn’t. But it is necessary because time erodes passion. If you do nothing to counteract that erosion you are simply resigning to your ultimate failure.
The only real ligimate marrage is between one man and one woman liberal actvists judge who force same sex weddings onto the citizens need to be rooted out just like the stupid judge in Hawaii
Making fun, even deriding a lengthy, faith-filled marriage is exactly what the social-conservatives warned would happen if gay marriage poked it’s nose under the tent.
Took longer than I thought, in fact I almost forgot it was predicted.
But, here it is.
Donald Trump got elected because a lot of people thought that social-conservative issues should be irrelevant.
(How could social liberals hurt anyone but themselves?)
The Left never stops its attack on all things American.
The flag was accused of being too patriotic.
So were red, white and blue school sports uniforms!
A man went into the girls room at Disney World, snooping at women and girls through the slot at the edge of every stall for as long as he wanted.
The Left’s attacks do hurt people who struggle to be good in their marriages.
They rob them of their resolve that it is an important thing to do.
That’s a shame.
But the Left has no shame.
Compare and contrast.
Ashley Csanady on Pence: constraining oneself is part of RAPE CULTURE at work.
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/ashley-csanady-mike-pences-evangelical-reasons-for-refusing-to-lunch-with-ladies-is-easy-to-mock-its-also-rape-culture-at-work
Ashley Csanady on Bill Clinton:
Twitter 2016.
Never forget, the left has no principles. They only have what is politically useful. They fawned over the Obama’s idyllic marriage…. oh, how wonderful, something to be cherished. Pence’s wonderful, faithful marriage is something to be made fun of, though. The Clinton’s stay married out of political convenience; he cheats on her and she, most likely, cheats (or “eats”) on him. So, let’s simply not talk about the sham marriage.
Liberals simply want to bitch in order to try and make opposition appear worse than they are. That, however, is impossible.