Beyonce tells some man in a new song:
“Cause if you like it then you shoulda put a ring on it.”
The message of the song being that a man can’t be mad to see an ex-girlfriend with another guy when he wouldn’t propose to her.
I suggest a modified quote — “If you like it then you should put a ring on it“.
Between homosexuals wishing to be married and heterosexuals finding it to be better to just live together and have sex together without all the legal particulars — no one seems to take marriage seriously.
I work with many other twenty-something people in the frameshop at Hobby Lobby. Many of them are at the point in a relationship where they should be getting married. Many of them even tell me that they want to get married to their girlfriend/boyfriend. My first response? ”Well then, why don’t you marry them?” Inevitably it is because of school or money or family or some other excuse. If you can live with and have sex with a person while still in school, with a part-time job, and with unapproving parents, then you can be married to that same person. It’s like they are all awaiting some grand sign in the Heavens that will reveal that this person is right for them. A marriage is based on choice. I choose my wife and she chooses me.
The old adage goes: ”Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?” That is the principle the people I work with are living. Why go thru a ceremony to “be married” when there seems to be no value placed on the institution of marriage in our society. Marriage is being made out to be some convient social arrangement or contract.
As ordained by God, marriage is to be between a man and a women. It is intended to be a high and holy ordinance preformed in a Temple of God. It is not intended to be “until death do you part”, but instead, for time and all eternity.
Beyonce probably didn’t mean her lyric to be taken along the interpretation road that I have taken it on, but I say that I must agree:
If you like it, then you should put a ring on it.
