The Daily Show had this segment on a man who was fired for expressing his disapproval of gay marriage, and a child who is harassed in school for refusing to stand up for the Pledge of Allegiance because he believes the government should extend marriage rights to gay and lesbian couples.
In trying to find more information about both cases, I searched the Internet and stumbled upon the Mass Resistance website. I found out that this organization has been characterized as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Their website seems to be devoted to anti-gay content, and as far as I can tell it was there that the video was first published. Here's a story about the incident from the local news in Boston:
This past Saturday, Zac and Amelia and Katie and I met and basically discussed our own impressions of marriage and our experiences of weddings. I was struck by a thing about marriage that seems to be a kind of truth behind a lot of things - that there are supposed ideals or rules that define a marriage or even a wedding, but those rules are flexible and change according to people's actual experience. That is, a lot of what marriage seems to entail is a negotiation between people's own personal habits and lifestyles and accommodations to each other, which are in truth quite complicated, and the standard operating procedure that seems to be the "myth" or idea of how things are supposed to be. So the actual experience never matches up to the idea of it; but the idea helps give the experience meaning. Does that make sense?
Also, Zac brought in a clip from an episode of This American Life about what happens in marriage called "The Sanctity of Marriage." You can listen to the whole thing here.
There's also a segment on marriage from the BBC show "In Our Time," which you can find here.
Finally, Amelia's previous video post reminded me of this Carter Family song, which I love. It's called "Single Girl, Married Girl." (There isn't any video, just the song):
There are many versions of this song out there, dating back to 1904 according to one source. This music video is a little strange, but the sound quality is good and the song is kind of fun.
