Getting what you asked for when it's not what you wanted

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"Gay people have every right to be as miserable as straight people."

Can I get a witness?

So says one of the highly snarky arguments for allowing marriage of two people of like gender.

Snarky. But absolutely, totally and 100 percent truth. Except it's worse.

What's your definition of worse?

Yeah worse.

And what happens when it comes to worse?

http://www.npr.org/2011/07/20/137674268/gay-divorce-a-higher-hurdle-than-marriage

"And if the couple's home state doesn't recognize gay marriage, they can't divorce there, either."

Uhn. Talk about getting what you asked for but not what you wanted.

Supposedly gay folks can go to a state that recognizes gay marriage and get a split there. But divorce is not equitable with marriage. Getting hitched is FAR easier than breaking the ties that bind. Lotta states require a legal separation period, counseling and some (see story) require you be a resident of that state for a certain amount of time.

Well, some folks will do it.

If the state the couple lives in doesn't recognize same-gender marriages, then the state also doesn't admit they can get separated.

Among those who so oppose same-gender divorcee are the very same who are so opposed to the union to begin with.

"That infuriates people like Lunt. It makes no sense, she says, for opponents of gay marriage to keep people like her from ending one."

As much as I like Lunt's argument here, she's wrong. So wrong. Because I am rational about a lot of things (armadillos being one thing I am totally irrational about), I'm not supporting those who oppose gay marriage and oppose gay divorce, but I am saying they at least are standing firm on their principles

Good representation of my thought processes.

Blown your mind yet?

If you oppose the idea of such a union, you must also oppose the dissolution of said union.

Because if you agree they can get divorced then Ibso Factotum Onion (or some other Latin phrase my brother will shortly supply), you have to admit there was a marriage to be sundered.

If you admit they can divorce, then you have to admit they were married.

That at least is consistent.