{"id":1579,"date":"2012-12-10T16:59:27","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T21:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/?p=1579"},"modified":"2012-12-10T16:59:27","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T21:59:27","slug":"marriage-a-words-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/general\/marriage-a-words-meaning\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage, a word&#8217;s meaning."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Marriage, a wonderful word ~ a worthy institution ~ a question, of meaning\u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/0hX2KaBi\">http:\/\/t.co\/0hX2KaBi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; C.G.Ayling (@CGAyling) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CGAyling\/status\/278259386839875585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 10, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h6>Marriage, a wonderful word ~ a worthy institution ~ a question, of meaning&#8230;<\/h6>\n<p>Although I never thought anyone had the right to tell another who they can or can&#8217;t love,\u00a0 long did I hold the belief that the word <em><strong>marriage<\/strong><\/em> defined a union between a man and a woman. Very recently I was thinking about this and realized that limiting this particular word to a narrow, archaic construct has a major impact on people &#8211; my belief that a word should be limiting, placed severe constraints on others.<\/p>\n<p>Who am I to tell anyone who chooses to make a commitment, that they cannot &#8211; simply because the one to whom they commit themselves is of the same gender? I don&#8217;t have that right, and if I did&#8230; well, I would cast it away.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, I would have voted for any type of civil union, regardless of its name. Yet, within my heart, I reserved the word marriage for only the variety of union in which I am bound. My way, is not the only right way.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I must open my closed mind and grant others, different from me, their chance at happiness, their chance at lifelong togetherness. Call it a civil union, call it a marriage, or simply call it by its true name&#8230; love.<\/p>\n<p>While none of us has any right to determine the lie of another&#8217;s heart, everyone deserves a chance at completion.\u00a0 Well done Washington, for taking a leadership role amongst the United States, once more.<\/p>\n<p>{04\/14\/13 you can read more of my journey to understand the meaning of marriage, <a href=\"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/2013\/03\/same-sex-marriage\/\">here<\/a>.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marriage, a wonderful word ~ a worthy institution ~ a question, of meaning&#8230; Although I never thought anyone had the right to tell another who they can or can&#8217;t love,\u00a0 long did I hold the belief that the word marriage defined a union between a man and a woman. Very recently I was thinking about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[85,250,251],"class_list":["post-1579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-musings","tag-civil-union","tag-marriage","tag-marriage-equality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}