I see on Facebook that someone has changed their status from married to single. Someone has made a comment...
“Congratulations!”
I simply cannot fathom that response.
Yes. Sometimes marriages end. Sometimes they even need to end. But is it ever a happy thing? Even if you don’t believe in marriage, surely you can understand that divorce is never pleasant.
Gay marriage isn’t a threat to the institution. If you want to find a threat to marriage how about the mindset that would respond to divorce with “Congratulations!”
2 comments:
But you don't know the situation, it was probably a friend who knows much more than you and I about the inside story..
Thanks for the response! I’m always happy to have comments, and I’m afraid what I’m about to write comes off as dismissive even though I don’t want it to.
I’m pretty confident that person knows less about the situation than I do.
In any case, the point is that I can’t imagine any situation in which that response would be appropriate.
I’ll certainly grant that there are limits to my imagination, though.
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