Some Thoughts on Marriage

Marriage in one context is a blending. You take two dissimilar things and
put them together and they make a new thing. They go together. What I am
thinking of is the way you can put a chocolate flavor into white whipped
cream and get a delicious new product. Also, if you serve corned beef with
cabbage the result delights the specialist in this kind of eating.

Some marriages don't work. Some kind of ingredient is missing and the
flavor or texture goes awry. We all can cite chapter and verse of some
spectacular mismatings we know. Even some of the best of joinings can pale
and go sour for some reason that is beyond our understanding.

Yet, there are those whose belief is that theirs is a mating made in heaven
and despite warnings posted by experienced or legalistically minded
observers, they go ahead and get married - for better or for worse. We all
are witnesses to unions that go on despite our warnings or misgivings. Some
succeed and others fail. This seems to be the way of it.

A group of Reform Rabbis are meeting today who will decide if they will
agree to "Kosher" unions between persons of the same sex. People live
together without official recognition and do not enjoy the same benefits
given to marriage between persons of the opposite sex. Reform Rabbis are
Jews but their decision (if positive) will be fought by other Jews who are
traditional and who consider such unions as Biblically proscribed
abominations.

I take the position that if two people want to try to live together and
make a success of it for themselves, then so be it. I know of no homosexual
(Gay or Lesbian) people who have this arrangement - legally or religiously
sanctioned or not. Do you? Is it successful or does it have the same run
of luck as the he/she type of union? What do you think? If the Reform
Rabbis join the few other religious groups approving such unions would you
applaud or condemn them?