Covenant marriages and homosexual marriages!

Take a look at this:

http://www.divorcereform.org/cov.html

Covenant marriages attempt to give more strength to the idea of marriage, but isn't marriage a covenant already? Or is this a religious-right-inches-its-way-back-in kind of covenant?

I mean, is the idea here to have a "more moral" marriage contract? That's how i've read a covenant marriage described: "social, moral and spiritual contracts rather than legal ones", the aforementioned website says. But then, why codify them into the legal system, like three states have already done?

What such codification implies is that, someone who doesn't get a covenant marriage, is not as social, moral and spiritual as someone who does. It's one more plot of the religious righteous right to divide America into two classes of citizens: real Americans and less real ones.

This is precisely what America does not need. There are already less real Americans, on the wrong side of the economic, ethnic, religious and sexual orientation tracks.

Arkansas, Arizona and Louisiana have already codified such marriages into their legal systems, which is really startling. After all, even though there are still many battles to fight, the general tendency in the US over the past few decades has been the opposite: that is, to take away from the body of law all those bits and pieces that excluded citizens.

Though worrisome, this is not even the most obvious of such signs; the flap-flap-flap of the right wing climbing back up is heard all around. President Bush, for instance, is proposing to change the constitution to make it impervious to homosexual marriage. I imagine the aim behind this is to make all discussions of homosexual marriage pointless from a legal point of view... One could always campaign to get the constitution changed back, i suppose, but it would definitely be a setback.

In any case, these efforts themselves do provide an interesting platform from which to study conservative reasoning. All this obsession with family, with wanting to give more reality to their own version of it, reflects a severely impaired social view; makes me think of very young children, who haven't met the outside world yet and so their families is their only body of identity, apart from themselves. This constant cackling about the sacredness and importance of (their) family signifies a lack of awareness of what lies beyond it, and therefore an unwillingness to even listen to others.

This fits perfectly with Mr. Bush's attempt, who is so bloody certain about the superiority of his views that, rather than have them healthily challenged, he would change the constitution.