Comments on: Couple That Paved the Way for Gay Marriage Call It Quits

By: grammar king

grammar king — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 01:41:48 +0000

there’s? really?

By: bobp

bobp — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:18:13 +0000

Way to go, ladies.

By: Charles J. Mueller

Charles J. Mueller — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:07:15 +0000

@Nate:

Nate…they are human beings with feelings and emotions, not statues in a park serving as a “landmark” as you so coldly put it.

They were together for two decades before they ever got married, so they didn’t just “fall out of love after only 2.5 years”. Here’s a copy and paste from the editorial in case you missed it.

“The couple wed in May 2004 after nearly two decades together.”

You sound like you think that this couple “owes” us something.

They don’t owe us a thing. So, get over it already.

By: Nate

Nate — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:25:59 +0000

Right, opposite couples and same sex couples will both get divorced. I believe my comment was restricted to THE couple who was the standard-bearer for the Goodridge case. Nothing against divorce, just think it’s kind of silly to get divorced so quickly when your marriage was such an important landmark.

By: Alexa

Alexa — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:00:38 +0000

Well, Nate, I’m sure if they had been allowed to they would have gotten married much earlier. Would you be happy if they had been married twenty years and then called it quits? Opposite sex couples get divorced every day, nobody plans for it to happen or expects it will happen to them. Same sex couples are going to be no different.

By: RB

RB — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:00:04 +0000

What a shame. They live in my neighborhood and I have seen them around a lot — but not together. Oh, well.

By: candice

candice — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:32:26 +0000

Really this just proves their marriage is the same as every other straight couple in the country who call it quits. Yay equality.

By: TylerOakley

TylerOakley — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:28:49 +0000

You can’t predict what will happen and unless you know the complexities of their relationship, I don’t think any of us are justified in judging a couple’s relationship.

By: Nate

Nate — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:39:49 +0000

Why get married if you are going to fall out of love in 2.5 years? What a joke.

And of course they earned the right…I’m just saying they shouldn’t have exercised it.

By: TylerOakley

TylerOakley — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:24:37 +0000

@Nate I completely disagree. Just like they earned the right to marry, they earned all the rights that came with it… including divorce. Why stay together if they no longer are in love?

By: Nate

Nate — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:20:57 +0000

Really? They couldn’t stick it out? Wow. Quitters. Here’s an idea: if the landmark gay-marriage case is named after you, then don’t get a divorce. This is worse than Roe turning all fundie to save teh babies.