Posted on 01/27/2009 7:08:42 PM PST by Saundra Duffy
She is shacking up. She is not married. She is simply an adulteress who is pretending to be married.
They always appear happy because the truth is too hard to take. I know a lot of apparently happy gay people who are “married”.
The hypocrisy of the general American public on this is unbelievable. It's tacitly acceptable for wealthy, older men in this county to have defacto polygamous relationships where they abuse younger women but so long as it's Eliot Spitzer or some Wall Street exec and they call their young squeeze a "mistress" then we all give it a sly wink of approval so long as they don't get caught.
My young friend pointed this out to me when I asked her what she says when people ask her about her relationship to her 'husband'. She said that she says she's his mistress and people drop the issue at that. She notes it's so hypocritcal that if she says she's "Bob's" mistress no one says a word, but if she says she's his wife they'll call the police.
So this begs the point of asking how many Wall Street or corporate execs are getting busted for bigamy because they are married and have a 'kept woman' on the side? Why is it okay for the CEO of (insert name here) to boink his young secretary in secret but it isn't okay for three people to live together openly?
Again, I'm not defending the lifestyle, but I am criticizing our highly selective sense of morality. Why is it wrong for a man to take a second woman into his home and accept responsiblity for her and her children but it's okay for some suit to rent an apartment and take the same responsibility for a young woman?
Legally, I agree with you.
They always appear happy because the truth is too hard to take. I know a lot of apparently happy gay people who are “married”.
Well, she's been in this relationship for three years and that's the longest she's ever had a relationship last. She quit drinking and she quit the drugs she was taking for depression and I'm not kidding that she's demonstrably happier. I'd rather her be in a real marriage but I wouldn't even think of asking her to go back to what she'd had before.
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
I simply cannot deny that she has pursued it and found it.
“I simply cannot deny that she has pursued it and found it. “
So have the people in the gay bathhouses of San Francisco. It doesn’t mean they are truly happy.
So are half the traditional marriages anymore that end in divorce. Just because they have a traditional marriage does not make them happy.
As I posted you to in pm, ask her yourself if she's happy or not.
Actually I don’t like either option. However when a wall street guy is busted it can effect his business. It is also very rare they are seducing underage girls and subjugating them to basically imprisonment. Sadly the women after the wall street type usually knows exactly what she is doing. Wrong is wrong in the desert or in the city.
So then why all the discussion about the competence of an 18 year old girl who essentially made the same choice in life as have so many corporate gold diggers? At least the FLDS girl isn't looking to enrich herself at the potential expense of millions of share holders.
It’s not the now 18 year I worry about. It’s her younger peers who made no such choice...
At the same time a 16 year old girl is not supposed to be in a religious relationship in Texas a 12 year old can have an abortion with no questions asked in just about every jurisdiction in America. Which begs the question of how did a 12 year old get pregnant in the first place except by being molested?
Myself, I see the furor over the FLDS as pure sensationalism when we have so much bigger problems in front of us as a nation.
Got to start somewhere.
I'm sure Zero's new AG would agree with you.
I would hope any decent human being would as well...
And if they were REALLY interested in protecting underage girls from sexual predators the first place they'd start is by banning lesbians from the Girl Scouts.
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