tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6612563867390490775.post5301007110181881066..comments2024-03-01T06:30:22.313+00:00Comments on Jourdemayne: Profanity and Nuptials, or, Get Your Hands Off My LanguageUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6612563867390490775.post-36698656286264394472012-05-02T19:22:00.336+01:002012-05-02T19:22:00.336+01:00The religious really do try to make out that marri...The religious really do try to make out that marriage is a religious cerenomy that has been taken over by secularims when it facts its the complete opposite.<br /><br />Instead of religious people trying to ban gay marriage the state should be banning any form of religious marriage (which apart from the C of E it already does). Why should a religious organisation be able to seal a secular contract that gives secular benefits and obligations (ie the tax system).<br /><br />I think I will take my militant atheist hat off now :)Jon Snoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6612563867390490775.post-35561078464889363222012-04-26T13:30:22.753+01:002012-04-26T13:30:22.753+01:00The use of bloody to mean 'By our Lady' is...The use of bloody to mean 'By our Lady' is interesting. Bloody is an adjective and so prevalent as to be almost non-profane. 'By our Lady' has distinctive Catholic connotations and would have to be used a lot more discreetly after Henry VIII's time which suggests the population blithely carried on referring to the mother of God, Reformation notwithstanding.<br /><br />The *real* meaning of swear words is often more forceful than usage suggests. For instance, 'blimme' and 'Cor blimme' (i.e. God blind me) are not simply cheerful Cockney phrases.Hattyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07540980649297754372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6612563867390490775.post-87861410897611625842012-03-20T16:42:26.385+00:002012-03-20T16:42:26.385+00:00I married; we had children (one of whom wrote this...I married; we had children (one of whom wrote this blog). Of course the meaning of marriage changes; the medieval church forbade marriage within the seventh degree of relationship, but dispensations were easily and frequently obtained if you could put up the money. Marriage was traditionally indissoluble - and still is in some societies; suttee is still reputed to be occasionally practiced in south India. But modern western marriage can and often does end in divorce (think how many murders this has prevented). Marriage is in part a civil partnership - that's about who gets the house and the kids. But it is about much more, about love, commitment and the joy of intertwining your life with another, and that's not a human impulse that's confined to heterosexuals. If gay and lesbian couples want to live that intention with one another, let them be fully married, and good luck to them.<br />To the argument that marriage is about begetting, where do I stand, in a second marriage, entered into when we were obviously far beyond having children?Paterfamiliasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6612563867390490775.post-19413840840420721122012-03-19T20:56:47.652+00:002012-03-19T20:56:47.652+00:00Oddly enough, I listened to The Moral Maze yesterd...Oddly enough, I listened to The Moral Maze yesterday which was about gay marriage and there were some interesting and frank points made: <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01d2h6s" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01d2h6s</a><br /><br />Things change, and despite the initial 'thin end of the wedge' sputum, there was a good sparring round about marriage which was essentially to produce and protect children. <br /><br />Although this is no doubt beneficial in the greater scheme of stability etc, notions that it is exclusively for this purpose then also precludes infertile, older or frankly sensible people who have no intention of drawing upon the Earths resources after their hasty exit by way of progeny.<br /><br />When it came up that essentially, despite dogma, the whole gay thing was just something the church didn't like, one could hardly move for elephants in the room.<br /><br />This post is fitting in very nicely with my Hitchens mourning process, so thanks for the post! <br /><br />-StuStuarthttp://www.learnmakeupeffects.com/blog/noreply@blogger.com