something forever

Lots of things in life have been perceived as something forever. As humans we sometimes feel much better thinking that as long as there is a history we are okay in continuing our behavior and behaving as the generations before us have. Traditions have garnered their place in our everyday machinations and often times we give little thought to our daily actions, and when we find the time to contemplate what we have done we respond and we simply sigh and say “oh I’ve done that forever!” 

Forever is not always the right answer when it comes time to consider the consequences of our actions. Forever is an easy answer when little responsibility is taken for what we do or why we do it. “Just because, it always has been, it is the way its done”, are all quick to the conclusion responses for actions we perform but none of those replies really tackle the question but should we continue to do it that way NOW? Religions, governments, families have relied on traditions to find easier access in maneuvering every day life. Blame it on the past, for your current actions, find scripture and verse defending your knee jerk reactions, don’t dwell on the details just the foibles and fables to discern distance from fact. 

The Supreme Court Justices have begun their debate on whether equality in marriage should become the law of the land. The first round of arguments have been based on statements focusing on the fact that marriage between a man and woman has always been the case since the founding of this nation;that tradition has it that one man and one woman are the foundation for the definition of marriage.Marriage between one man and one woman for lack of better insight has been forever. Slavery was the way of the United States at its founding there was no need to discuss equality between the races, pure fact at the time was that the Negro race was inferior, tradition told us so. Women were considered chattel since the founding of the Republic, common sense proved that females were the weaker gender created from the rib of Adam to make babies, bake a cake and clean up after her lord and master. Equality was never considered something to tamper with especially if INEQUALITY was founded on tradition. 

Why must we continue to refuse the promise of change, and rely on the deformities of the past? Why do we hold in high esteem traditions from the past but never question what value they hold for this moment? Why do we as a nation even consider equality up for debate?