MORE DAMAGE DONE TO MARRIAGE BY CONGRESS

...yesterday, than any court could ever manage.

At the core all marriages as far as the govt. is concerned are
nothing more than a proffer of a bundle of legal rights, given for
agreeing to enter into a committed relationship.

That's the only reason the govt. is EVER involved in marriage (or
anything else for that matter) -to grant and protect legal rights.

Among the rights granted by marital status are medical power of
attorney.

Now the Republican majority Congress has met *on a Sunday* to state
categorically that parental rights trump one heterosexual married
couple's medical power of attorney rights.

Where's the "sanctity of marriage" here? Is this a clever attempt by
the republican Congress to to destroy all marriage so that gays and
lesbians can't have it either?

The fanatics attack Michael
Sciavo for having another relationship 5 years after his wife's
injury -but understand, that's completely irrelevant to the fact that
legally he has medical power of attorney. Even if he were the biggest
A-hole on the planet to her having 7 mistresses while she was still
ablebodied it wouldn't matter -he'd still have medical power of
attorney as long as they were legally married.

Congress' taking that away from him weakens marriage and the rights
it grants more than any expansion of the "definition" of it ever could.

Here's a relatively unbiased blog recounting the story so far...