“Marriage is not about love. It’s about a love that can bear children.” — Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., during the debate in the U.S. House about a proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage (via The Kansas City Star’s KC Buzz Blog).
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Marriage isn’t about love. It’s about convience.
“Marriage is about a love that can bear children”???
Is that Tiarhts spelling or yours Rhonda? Was it he or you who meant “bare children”
Yikes I posted “bare children”! I bet Phil Kline caught that! No wonder the spelling confusion! Imagine Tiarht saying that “marriage is about a love that can bare children”! Oh the Kansas confusion! Folks get married and their love causes child pornography?Please tell me it is Toady Todds spelling!Anywhichway,
What is “bearing children” exposing children to bears? Converting them into bears by exposing them to a bear lifestyle?
That’s total bullshit. What about seniors who get married? What about hetero couples who have no desire to have children? Or can’t? What about blended families who already have all the children they want?
They want to make a law under Akin’s definition? Then a marriage should be ended if it isn’t fertile.
So now we’re basing marriage on the act of sex itself? Okay, nobody can have sex unless it’s to have a child. Damn, takes all the fun out of it, doesn’t it?
Maybe Tiahrt or Rhonda meant “marriage is about a love that can bore children”?
Todd Akin, not Tiahrt..he says enough silly stuff, forcing tankers on the Air Force they didn’t want, not that statement.
Love is lost in today’s plentiful failing marriage’s. I haven’t been married, I’m 40. Lost love in relationships is clear. Marriage has to be more than what I’ve felt dating experiences.
Children created are key to my marriage dreams, family, but time to just be married partners seems important before having children or adopting.
I don’t care about others same sex married. Partnerships are better in society, buy more things, plans about life are under consideration. Gay adoptions, its not my call on those people abilities to be parents. I guess its right there, are gays born or a learned experience. Gay’s teach it so others follow, I don’t know.
It’s too bad in America so many marriages fail, I haven’t found the right partner to trust the process long term. My parents have been married 50 years, but that’s the past. I won’t last that long anyway to age 90? I could be married next year, I want to be, I guess.
Since I am incapable of having children, does this politician mean I should never be married? And here, my wife and I thought we were extremely happy.
Oh dear. Whatever shall we do?
Marriage is about the weekend off and having the wife NOT cook breakfast; force you to wear real shorts, not the cut-offs that show how manly you are; finding a baby-sitter that’s twice as hot as your old lady, while you take the missus to McDonalds for that monthly gourmet dinner, then to the drive-in for the rerun of “Days of thunder” because the little woman loves Tom Cruise and you think the movie is the real story of Dale Earnhardt, only he lives in this one.
Marriage is about raising kids who wreck your favorite truck, but don’t know how it happened; about daughters who date Jeffery Dammer, who laughs at you when you show them your 12 gauge semi-auto; about grandkids you can send home with the daughter who married Jeffery Dammer (now called meathead), who turned out to be not that bad, even though he likes drag racing better.
But marriage is about two people sticking it out through anything, be they a man and a woman, two dudes or two chicks. Bottom line: Who should give a rats ass who gets married?
Queers should have the right to marriage so that they can be just as miserable as many heteros.
“All we need is love” – I believe John Lennon said it. Still true.
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to……….J. R. R. Tolkien
My wife and I married when we were too old to have children.
Oh my gosh, we don’t have a “real marriage”! SOB!
Can we still have sex, do you think? Or is TT against that too . . .
Hey, I got an idea. How about TT go live in Arabia where they have religious views like his and the rest of us can live our lives without this arrogant moralizing from people who should just cram it?
“Marriage is not about love. It’s about a love that can bear children.” — Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo.
What’s he going to say when science has advanced to the point where a child can be cloned from two men or two women, or for that matter, from three people? It’s closer than you think!I am sick of all these assholes that are desperately trying to redefine marriage to exclude one or more kinds they don’t like. A marriage should be defined by the parties involved, and not by some politician trying to score points with some power broker.
Oops!
“It is a about a love that can bear children” does NOT come from the mouth of Todd Tiahrt as I mistakenly posted at the beginning of this thread. My bad. Not just once but twice.
But who says Tiahrt didn’t tell Akin to say it?
The desire to provreate is or should be a biological imperative! My wife and I have five lovely blue eyed kinder and given my druthers I would like a couple more. Childlessness and racemixing have been part of jew brainwashing program for US and peple who engage in such unhealthy behavior usually end up feeling empty and miserable.
V.L.R.B!!!
Obviously, Akin’s marriage isn’t about love! That’s too bad. I’m sorry for his misery, but I wish he wouldn’t hold up his as the norm and expect us all to share in his suffering!
This is just another ploy to direct our attention to inconsequential matters while our president runs amok. Matters of love and marriage can best be decided by those who are in love.
My mom and dad were unable to have children, so they adopted me.
Does that mean we are not a family? Does that mean they didnt have a marriage? Does that make me their pet dog and not their daughter?
How DARE you dis my family that way!
What does VALUES boy have to say about this? How does the damn WE expect us to consider moral questions without his regal pontifications?
Geezz…..
…and judging from the number of straight married people who clearly sleep in different bedrooms and who complain all the time about not having sex…
…there sure seem to be lots of marriages that arent marriages according to this bozo.
Does that mean all those straight folks who never procreated or are finished procreating are just living in sin?
heheheh. I bet Jesus wept after he laughed when reading this crap.
I came up with a real nice snarky comment but ya know….it’s just not worth my time.
“Marriage is not about love….” I’m sure there are lot’s of married couples who can attest to that! HA!All I know is that kids can add a lot of stress to a marriage, and mine sure improved once the rugrats moved out! *Sigh*..it’s so nice to go to bed and not have to worry about whether or not they’re going to make it home alive, or if they’re going to end up with a drug problem, or in jail, or make babies that they don’t support, or drop out of school, or end up in an abusive relationship, or be able to find a job and make it on their own when (and if) they move out, or they’re going to turn out to turn out to be a turd or a decent human being,….thank God, they’re all grown up and doing fine, now all I have to worry about is the grandchildren…*sigh*.
Mary,Ditto!
In American society, marriage means nothing if we still believe that marriage can be considered void by divorce. As long as American society condones divorce, believing that the state has the authority to end marriages, marriage will always be considered something profane and subject to change and aberrations. What does this mean, dear nation of self-righteous Protestants? It means that in 800 years since Henry VIII, WE CATHOLICS WERE RIGHT ALL ALONG.
“…and the Truth shall set you free.”
In American society, marriage means nothing if we still believe that marriage can be considered void by divorce. As long as American society condones divorce, believing that the state has the authority to end marriages, marriage will always be considered something profane and subject to change and aberrations. What does this mean, dear nation of self-righteous Protestants? It means that in 800 years since Henry VIII, WE CATHOLICS WERE RIGHT ALL ALONG.
“…and the Truth shall set you free.”
and by the way dear people, Todd Akin is only half right. Marriage isn’t just about procreation; it’s about finding mutual fulfillment through a loving relationship. From the beginning, God had ordained marriage to be eternal. No human power, institution, or even the Church had ANY right in nullifying or absolving marriages, because marriage is a holy covenant entered into by two people who with full consent pledge themselves to one another in loving service and eternal honor, with the blessing of God himself.
“THAT WHICH GOD HATH JOINED TOGETHER, LET NO ONE TEAR ASUNDER”
-Jesus Christ