HolyMatwimony

Same-sex marriage --- a huge topic of controversy in the US today. Fundamental human right? Perversion of a sacred ceremony? Tempers rise, rhetoric flies.

Maybe there's a simple solution: grant full social, legal recognition to an identical institution --- but give it a different name. Modest suggestion: "mawidge". Anyone who has seen William Goldman's The Princess Bride will remember Peter Cook's performance as a clergyman with a distinctive speech impediment who officiates at a royal wedding. He begins his benediction:

"Mawidge ... mawidge is what bwings us togethah today ..."

"Mawidge, that bwessed awangement, that dweam within a dweam ..."

TopicHumor - TopicLanguage - TopicSociety - Datetag20031213

It's called 'civil union,' even if 'mawidge' is a more intriguing name. 'Civil union' has none of the religious connotations that marriage has, appropriately so in view of the First Amendment.- KS -- KS

(correlates: MandatoryInversion, ImpossibleUsage, IncommuniCoders, ...)