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Since my big day is coming soon, I thought I would try another random blog search activity as I did a few days ago. Its an occasional unscientific study that takes under 5 minutes but I think it often reveals a rather honest and candid sampling of what people are up to.

I typed in the word marriage, and I am disturbed to report not one of the first 50 or so hits included anything fun, positive, jovial, or even satisfying. Here they are...

"'Marriage is not safe from activist courts until a US Constitutional Amendment is ratified. ... The Federal Marriage Amendment is back and the Right wants it on the fast track. They've aptly renamed it The Marriage Protection Amendment, ..."

"The usual bad destination claimed to await us after gay marriage is polygamy. But one occasionally hears that gay marriage will also bring incestuous marriages, bestial marriages, etc. Here I will consider only the polygamy variant of ..."

"The most common argument of all against gay marriage is the procreation argument. ... Marriage is for procreation, and procreation should occur within marriage. Procreation is the one important attribute of marriage that supplies the ..."

"It is not rational to simultaneously expect marriage to mean something, ... Why fight for the gay right to be married when marriage is increasingly meaningless? ... It's as if the whole world has been sprinkled with magic pixie marriage ..."

"The physical intimacy of marriage and other sexual relationships creates a fair number of situations in which each partner has a decided emotional and/or physical stake in what's going on with the other, and in which it could be argued ..."

"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. ... Art of Living & Literature Across Frontiers: Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring and suffering ..."

mmmm. OK. Well, in spite of these warnings I think I'll go through with it tomorrow anyway.

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