Dennis Prager on how marriage hurts Democrats.
Mr. Prager puts the issue in partisan terms, saying that since married people are wiser and more mature, they will be less likely to vote for Democrats. Heh!
I agree, but the partisan nature of the argument doesn't have to be expressed to note that marriage and family does make people wiser. When a man takes a wife, he must be concerned for her well-being as well as his own. Whatever he did by instinct, or just determined self-reliance, is now extended to two people, and more when children come. Wisdom results.
I noticed this in my life too. Even when I was living in unbelief, I viewed my marriage as a beneficial event in my life. If I hadn't met Amy when I did, my life could have taken a very bad turn. In my Unitarian Universalist Congregation, with no standards for sexual integrity (except to leave children alone, and there are forces lining up to take that one down in the future), I don't know where I'd be today if not for the vows I made to Amy. I'd say it made me a lot wiser. Jump ahead seven years, and I'm wondering if I have what it takes to make the marriage last to a golden anniversary, and I have serious self-doubts. After a three-month struggle to repent of my resistance to God's call, I give in and give everything to Him. I'm wiser again.
I'll have to share more about this when our adoption is complete, but let me just say now that learning about Marriage and Family is starting to dominate what I pray about, what I think about when I read the Bible, and I can tell that God is working in my life here. I definitely believe that having children makes us wiser still, and I can see it in my life, though I have so much still to learn.
Posted by joelfuhrmann at September 23, 2003 09:25 PM