Conservatives Contradict with Marriage Views

Marriage is a funny thing.  It's especially funny when you try and imagine all the millions of people in this country who are basically living as if they are married without ever actually getting married.  The reason for this ambiguity is because marriage, like many things, has become an institution of government.  Besides what the talking heads will tell you about who defines marriage, the fact of the matter is that the government defines marriage, which is why we are involved in this whole quandary about who can get married to whom.

The contradiction arises out of the non-stop banter from the right wing about what government should control.  According to many prominent Republicans government should have no control over our guns and should give up the right to tax our income.  They are adamant about these intrusions into our personal affairs but yet are completely mum when it comes to government intrusions into our sex lives.  In the same vein of abortion rights, the truth is that Conservatives are not for smaller government unless the government is up to something they don't agree with. 

Gun Control: Big Government; Abortion Control: Righteousness; Higher Taxes: Big Government; Institutionalized Marriage: Tradition.

See the contradiction?

If Republicans, Tea Baggers, or whatever these morons representing morons call themselves nowadays really wanted to make an argument that wasn't mired in hypocrisy, they would advocate for the absence of government from the social construct of marriage altogether.

There is no reason for government to be involved in marriage anyway.  There would be no issue today concerning who can and cannot get married if all the benefits of being married were available to any pair or group of partners who are making a life together, regardless of how their relationship is defined.

And to call marriage traditional anyhow is a complete crock of shit.  For tens and tens of thousands of years before any semblance of monogamy existed, male and female humans banged multiple partners in territorial bands much like apes do today. 

The reasons for this behavior: Pro-creating was essential to a population struggling to survive and; Men died at much younger ages than women, resulting in grave sexual disparities (a big part of the reason the species has evolved a fertility rate that favors male children, even though women maintain a consistent 51% proportion of the world populous).

But it wasn't just polygamy that was the norm, many people also got it on with same sex partners in between their soirees among the opposite sex. 
Even among some of the most endangered modern species, there exists homosexual behavior.  Although it is hard to objectively categorize animal sexualities because they all seem to be pansexual, it can be said that certain animals of each species tend to prefer homosexual behavior. 


Now that's tradition!