I think your brother is either excellent at keeping secrets, or a fabulous salesman.
How else can you explain his getting women #6, #7, and #8 to marry him, knowing how many failed marriages he’d had? Either they didnt know about the previous wives (at least not all of them), or else he had them convinced that things with them would truly be different.
I knew a woman that had been married 9 times.
The fact that I made her my mother-in-law reflects badly on judgement doesn’t it?
You know, my grandfather was married to my grandmother for 35 years, until he was widowed. He later remarried, and that marriage lasted until his death - 37 years later.
My other set of grandparents were married for 49 years. Again, only the death of my grandfather ended this relationship.
My parents have been married for 38 years, so far.
So why, with countless examples like this around, do some gay activists concentrate on bad marriages, serial marriages, or infidelity? Do you really think these traits are confined only to heterosexuals? Won’t some gays also make a mess of their marriages, people being what they are?
Disparaging marriage as an institution, or even the use some unfortunate people have put to it, seems a strange tactic for people seeking access to this same institution. Better, I think, to look at long, successful marriages and argue for the right to have a long, successful one yourself.
Depending on the state, he may only have to split assets gained during the marriage. So marrying 8 times wouldn’t be any worse financially than marrying once for a longer period.
I support gay marriage myself, but I just wanted to point out that most of the opponents to it I know would ALSO oppose what they would call the OP’s brothers abuse of the privilege. They might see his serial sacraments as a disrespect of the insitution as bad as gay marriage, but reluctantly feel that there’s no way, aside from stricter divorce laws, to stop people from marrying that often, while with gay marriage you can nip that in the bud.
Again, I have no trouble with gay marriage myself, just saying that disapproval of it doesn’t necessarily mean you’re OK with the straight Britneys of the world either.
That is exactly what I usually do. An old friend of mine, one of the finest, most decent people I know, has been with his partner for over a decade now, and yet people expect me to believe that he is somehow less moral or more of a threat to marriage than, say, Senator Bob Barr, author of the Defense of Marriage act, who has been married 3 times. During the past year and a half, I’ve had the joy of falling in love with a wonderful man. I’ve held hands with him, hugged him, even kissed him in public. I know how happy he makes me; for that matter, I know how happy my parents make each other after over 40 years of marriage. I also know how happy my friend and his partner make each other. Yet, of these three relationships between good, honorable people, only one is seen as a threat to marriage, morality, and common decency. My sense of common decency says that can’t be right.
CJ
Because the argument being put forward by our opponents is that letting gays marry will destroy marriage. To such an idiotic argument, it seems entirely proper to point out the immense amount of damage straight people try to inflict on the institution on a daily basis, with no apparent success. If marriage as an institution can survive DMark’s brother, it can certainly survive DMark himself.
How about we do both? We take a long, successful marriage like the one in which DMark is currently involved, and contrast it with someone who cannot keep a marriage together to save his life, like DMark’s brother, and then ask the obvious question: why does society sanction one and not the other, when by any reasonable standard the far more stable, loving, and succesful marriage is the one with two guys in it?
Oh, and speaking of obvious questions, who in this thread (or in the gay marriage movement at large, for that matter) has disparaged marriage as an institution?
Ah, I see. But does that count as one marriage, or five?
A new thought occurs to me, DMark: perhaps your brother is having an affair with his divorce lawyer and needs continuous new cases because he can’t think of a better excuse to see the lawyer? Or maybe it’s the family court judge?
Congratulations DMark and DMark’s Man! My Reason for Living ™ and I are getting “hitched” in October and I can’t wait to have been with her for 25 years (I’ll be…omg, I don’t even want to think about how old I’ll be!) - I’m so happy to have found her.
Wishing you both the best on your special day and always 
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Wait, I thought you wanted gay people to have just civil unions, ostensibly because it would’ve been helpful to your aunt or something like that. Which is it?
DMark: tell your brother “9th time’s a charm,” and that no one likes a quitter.
You must not be old enough to remember the song by Herman’s Hermits.
“She’s been married 7 times before…
And every one was an 'Enery. 'ENERY!”
Congrats to the OP for such a long term relationship. Even coming from a long line of married folks, that kind of time amazes me.
I’m on my first, 8 years together this Sept, 6 of them married. If she leaves me, besides being broke (she’s a paralegal), I’m just getting a good hunting dog, and I’m going to turn into that “wierd guy with the cats.” 
-Butler
My hub had to have certified copies of both of his divorce decrees in order for us to get a marriage license. (Yeah, I’m number three.)
Has anyone else ever wondered about that “widow next door”? She’s been married and widowed seven times, and she never marries anyone who isn’t named Henry. Sounds like a serial killer to me!
It took me a long time to get the pun. As a kid, I thought that Henry the VIII had actually married a 7x widowed woman.
Wouldn’t take a Willie or a Sam
Sam, sam, sam
I’m the eigth old man I’m 'Enery
'ENERY!
'Enery the eighth I am
I am
Reading this brings to mind the thought that letting gays marry may have the effect of improving the percentage of successful marriages overall.