Celebrity marriage is leading to the destruction of America. When two celebrities get married, they have to flaunt it in our faces, even though they claim they just want to live their lives in private like anyone else. Well, they're not like anyone else. Celebrity marraige inevitably leads to sex tapes, which leads to pornography, masturbation and all kinds of other obscenities. When two celebrities can get married for 48 hours with no consequences, it's an abomination of God's law. Celebrities often get married three or more times. This is obviously leading us down a slippery slope into a world of bigamy and then into a world where people can marry their pets. Celebrity weddings are all over the news, giving our precious children the impression that marriage is about over-the-top weddings. I'm afraid the only solution we have is to create a Consitutional amendment to ban celebrity marriage. Do it for the children.
Note to the satire-impaired: I'm not serious. But I do think Tom Cruise's heavily publicized lavish third wedding is more harmful to hetero marriages than some average gay Joes or Josephines getting married. I am also getting frustrated at the idea that people have to go into extreme debt in order to have a wedding. It shouldn't be about the wedding, it should be about the marriage. My grandparents have been happily married for 62 years without ever having an extravagent ceremony. My parents' wedding took place during a blizzard, with handmade decorations and my parents' siblings providing the music. They are about to celebrate 35 happy years together. I myself am kind of ambivalent about marriage. I really don't think it's for everyone. . . you know, like celebrities.
November 19th, 2006 at 11:46 am
Good points about marriage costing WAY too much nowadays and the media frenzy when some celebrity gets married or has a baby (Angelina and Brad for instance!). If course that's what the public wants. They get their news from "Entertainment Tonight" and have to be told which movie made the most money over the weekend so they can go see that one (whether it's good or bad!). Are we becoming a nation of dummies? Well yeah! It only took us three years to figure out this Iraq war wasn't such a good idea even though there was ample evidence from the beginning. Why read the newspapers when you can turn on CNN and slobber over Tom and…whatzername?…getting married though? Then it's back to our iPods, e mail and video games! Duh!
November 19th, 2006 at 11:52 am
Right on! I am so sick of seeing celebrity weddings all over the "news" media. And don't even get me started on the birth announcements - I swear, there are plenty of people in this country who have babies because Angelina Jolie or Katie Holmes or whoever make it look so easy. . .
November 23rd, 2006 at 8:25 am
Amen sister - satire or not, you make a hell of a lot more sense than Rick Santorum ever did.
November 27th, 2006 at 7:53 pm
How can you say such a thing?
When I think of all the trials and tribulations Kid Rock and Pamela Anderson have gone thru in the midst of their multiple month marraige - multiple MONTH, not just days or weeks, so you know it was true love…
Sigh - you must just be cold inside to want to ban something as true and pure as that!