Hillary: Marriage is a sacred bond between a man and woman for raising children

[Kalidurga]

31. This issue is one of my least concerns in 2015

I don't care that it took her so long to evolve. Some people live in more restrictive environments than others and they cope by being more closed minded than is natural for them to be.

My main issue is with her assertion that marriage is a sacred institution, it is not it is a civil contract. And the problem with not seeing it that way leaves the institution open to abuse. It means one partner can feel free to spend above the means of the family and not leave enough to provide for necessities. That actually happened in my family. My father spent far more than he should have on his hobbies to the point we didn't have enough money for food and clothes. Both my parents made more than enough to cover our basic needs, yet my mother had to go begging her relatives to cover some of those needs. If it was a contract situation she could have taken my dad to court to make him stop doing that. Maybe we still wouldn't have had everything we needed, but making him stop buying $200 dollar guns in the 1970's sure would have gone a long ways. And no he didn't take a long time to save up.

The issue that it's between a man and a woman can't be over looked of course. It was freaking 2004. But, I accepted Obama evolving on this issue and I accept it from Hillary. But, I do have an issue with her equating marriage with children. I know of more than one couple who never had children and never will. One is in their late 60's. One I lost track of they might have children now, but they said they weren't ever going to they were in their mid 20's. And my daughter and her girlfriend aren't planning to adopt well bad example they aren't planning to get married either. But, the point is not everyone wants to have children even if they have a partner and even when gay people marry it doesn't follow that they will adopt or opt for invitro fertilization or some other means or that they will hire a surrogate.

The whole thing is messed up from the man and woman thing to the sacred institution thing to it being for the children thing.