Tiger’s Triple Bogey Underscores Marriage Double Standard

First let me say I couldn’t give any less of a damn where Tiger puts his wood or his iron.  The fact the Tiger got hungry and went out for a little Grubb is a matter concerning only the celebrity golfer and his life caddie.  He owes me no apology and certainly owes me no remorse.   He is a human being who is paid very well to put his ball in a hole; the fact that he does that off the green is not surprising.

What does cause point to ponder is that in the very same week that Tiger is accused of playing out of the rough with THREE mistresses, the New York State Senate voted down a bill legalizing gay marriage 38 – 24, where the opposition justified their vote by stating same-sex marriage is a threat to traditional marriage.  You have got to be fucking kidding me.  The biggest threat to “traditional” marriage of any kind is philandering hypocrites like Newt Gingrich, Sen. David Vitter, Sen. John Ensign, Gov. Mark Sanford, and hell, we might as well throw in that bastion of traditional family values, Rush Limbaugh, and his impending FOURTH marriage.  Last time I checked, these upstanding American citizens are straight as the proverbial arrow, but then again, that’s also the professions of Sen. Larry Craig and Rep. Mark Foley. 

In the last few weeks, we have listened with appall at news stories involving teens who set fire to another child over a dispute about a bike, a woman sold her five-year-old daughter, who was raped and murdered, to a pedophile for drugs, and though a much less heinous a crime, a Colorado father pimps his child out to bask in a little balloon-boy publicity.   ALL of these are the product of “traditional” marriage. 

How dare you, the pompous and the pious, stand and tell me and my partner of MANY monogamous years that we are a threat to marriage and family.  Against your own standards for society, you have been measured, and you have come up just short of the pin.   Marriage, family, and tradition are not threatened by homosexuals who desire a legal, loving commitment.  Marriage and family are undermined by infidelity, addiction, abuse, greed, the economy, divorce, and many other human frailties that are simply par for the course in Homo sapien life.  As far as Maine, California, and New York are concerned, I say we ask for a mulligan and tee up the Constitution of the United States for a change.  All in favor?  FORE!