# Traditional marriage demonstration on my way home today **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 8, 2011, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/traditional-marriage-demonstration-on-my-way-home-today/584804 "2011-06-08T23:46:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/traditional-marriage-demonstration-on-my-way-home-today/584804/41 "2011-06-10T15:28:01Z")
> [@Lightnin](#): > > “Jesus had two daddies!” This…that’s…I’m speechless. This is fantastic, is what it is. Just dead-nuts fantastic. Good show, sir, very good show indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/traditional-marriage-demonstration-on-my-way-home-today/584804/42 "2011-06-10T16:31:23Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Perhaps, but I didn’t have the luxury to think about it. I only had a few seconds and a very easy gesture came to mind. You could always bite your thumb at them, like in Shakespeare. 😃 I’ve actually done that at protesters a couple of times. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/traditional-marriage-demonstration-on-my-way-home-today/584804/43 "2011-06-10T18:40:14Z")
> [@Mr.Me](#): > > That would be such a great time to have one of those seismic disturbance causing car stereos. Playing _Born This Way_. Cranked up to 11. . . . all while making out with your nearest friend of the same sex. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/traditional-marriage-demonstration-on-my-way-home-today/584804/44 "2011-06-11T08:05:37Z")
> [@](#): > > Traditional marriage demonstration on my way home today > I was driving home today and all the traffic was slowing down - I came up to the intersection to see a bunch of people in top hats and foolish clothes in 95 degree weather, waving big signs say “Honk if you are in favor of traditional marriage” and “One man one woman”. I’d be tempted to make my own sign and stand next to those people holding the latter sign. My sign would read “and a goat”. ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/traditional-marriage-demonstration-on-my-way-home-today/584804/45 "2011-06-11T12:54:31Z")
I like and support traditional marriages… I’d be some kinda serious hypocrite if I didn’t. After all, my wife and I have one. 🆒 That said, I support the right of anyone to bind their lives to another in a lasting public commitment expressing their mutual love and devotion. _Their_ commitment to each other has _zero_ impact on mine to _my_ wife. Why should _I_ deny others the joy, challenges, trials, comfort, love, and triumphs we’ve experiened together? Generally, I find protestors of that sort to be massively irritating. 1. They’ve utterly lost the plot - Marriage is a commericial (old-school) or social (more recently) contract between two people and, maybe (if you’re _really_ traditional) their families. Where does gender actually enter into that? 2. NO ONE is messing with _their_ relationships, and 3. They _fuck up my commute!_ ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/traditional-marriage-demonstration-on-my-way-home-today/584804/46 "2011-06-11T13:41:56Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Do you live in one of those states where the Democrats, the media and Satan are outlawing conventional marriage and forcing people into polygamous gay unions? Because to be honest, I have a problem with that. Well, given your leanings, would you be in favour of polyandrous gay marriage? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/traditional-marriage-demonstration-on-my-way-home-today/584804.md?page=2)