‘I Now Pronounce You…’ What?

By Lee Duigon

June 1, 2023

At first I was sure it was another one of those “man bites dog” stories that annually tide the nooze media over the summer. CNN makes a big deal of it, focusing in on four women who have married… themselves. CNN calls it “a symbolic expression of self-love.” (Sorry, we’re out of barf bags.)

This practice, if that’s the word for it, is called “sologamy.” Although it has no legal status anywhere, it has already been featured on several TV shows that I don’t watch.

It always starts that way, though, doesn’t it? And by and by we wind up with yet another wacky Lifestyle that we’re all supposed to “celebrate” or else be branded as “haters” and “terrorists.” Get the FBI busy on this!

Hint: Put a few of these sham weddings on YouTube, especially the splashy ones that look like real weddings until you realize it’s only one person, and watch it take off—because everybody wants to be on YouTube. You could be the next Dylan Mulvaney if you play your cards right. Or wrong. Who knows? We’re entering uncharted territory here.

First it was “living together,” which used to be called “living in sin.” When that controversy ran out of gas, we moved on to “gay marriage.” Many of us laughed at that, when it first started; but we’re not laughing now.

There have always been gimmicky pseudo-marriages that had their little hour upon the stage. Man marries dog. Woman marries toaster-oven. Three guys “marry” two gals. I was pinning these clippings on my “Mondo Bizarro” board back in the 1970s. I never guessed, back then—and neither did anybody else—what a shambles Far Left Crazy would make of marriage.

Marriage is a God-given institution, the union of a man and a woman. (Have I just lapsed into “terrorism” by saying this?) It is the foundation of the family. But we know what leftids think of families, don’t we? And if the foundation be destroyed (see Psalm 11), what can the righteous do? What can anybody do?

For those people who get deeply into stuff like this, there is no stopping point. We knew they’d never be content with “gay marriage.” The transgender explosion followed in its tracks. God only knows what they’ll come up with next, once the novelty wears off.

We are not convinced that these innovations are as popular as the nooze media and its Democrat tribal elders make them out to be. Alexandria O’Crazy-O Cortez was dumbfounded when she went to a town hall in Queens last week and normal people booed and cursed her. We are beginning to suspect that what we see and hear on our TV and computer screens is not what’s really out there. And none of these children who’ve been subjected to “gender reassignment” will ever bear children of their own. Think about what that bodes for the future.

If they can get rid of marriage—by trivializing it, mocking it, discouraging it—they will have taken a giant step toward their statist utopia in which we have nothing to hang on to but Big Brother and whatever he decides we need. There are only so many lunatic variations that can be plugged into marriage before the whole institution collapses into chaos.

Which is what they want.

I have discussed this and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link, stop in for a visit; it would just frustrate the hell out of Chuck Schumer if you did. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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