Sanctity

It must mean something different
than in the Christian sense.

How is it that Walt Whitman
having sex with other men
could destroy the "sanctity" of marriage?

Do you mean sanctity in the sense of
beating, raping, and killing your spouse
as some marriages do?
Do you mean the lifelong beauty
of some non-christian marriages?
Do you mean marriages are sacred
where a parent beats and rapes their children?
or kills them?

How is Walt Whitman having sex with a man
going to destroy the Love between a man and a woman?
How are gays and lesbians
which to my limited understanding
have been around throughout history
destroying the Love between my wife and I?

And why is it all marriage is considered sacred
when there are also marriages of abuse?
When there are marriages without Love?
And how can marraiges of Love
be so easily destroyed by people of the same genders
having sex or being in Love with each other?

"You have some 'splainin' to do, Lucy."