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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Johannes Pilch who wrote (133068)	3/23/2001 12:21:11 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 769667

Legally, marriage appears screwed up because we increasingly fail to treat it as what it is -- a legal contract. I agree with that. But I think the problem is much broader. Even if the marriage contract were enforced by the state, which is a BIG "if," the problem would not be solved because it addresses only a subset of the population. What about the people who don't bother to get married? Right now they're treated the same as the married because the married are treated very leniently. If that leniency were to go away, the unmarried couldn't be held to that higher standard because they didn't sign a contract so we'd end up with two different classes of accountability. If that were the case, more and more couples would choose not to get legally married to avoid losing control of their relationship. Why lock yourself into the state's notion of marriage if you don't have to? We'd end up with a small minority of strictly married people--the very religious and the diehard traditionalists--and an even larger majority would continue to run amok. Enforcing the marriage contract has superficial appeal, but I don't think it would produce the desired results. Karen

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