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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Lane3 who wrote (133035)	3/23/2001 11:56:24 AM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) of 769667

My point is not to advocate or deny them, only that the institution of marriage is already hopelessly screwed up. Well--I think not. The concept of legal marriage itself is quite fine. It is people who are hopelessly screwed up. Legally, marriage appears screwed up because we increasingly fail to treat it as what it is -- a legal contract. The reason legal marriage seems unimportant is because we increasingly lack integrity, allowing ourselves to make extraordinary promises to one another even while seriously thinking we might break those promises. We stand before our gods and fellow men to promise everlasting faithfulness, love and devotion, even signing legal documents to cause the state to recognize our contracts, only to break those most solemn contracts as if they were little more than mere cancellations of magazine subscriptions. It shows quite a lack of respect for our gods, our fellow men, our word and, of course, ourselves. The fault is not with legal marriage-- it is with a society that upholds every contract but marriage. A fellow can abandon his legal obligations in marriage, but should he fail to pay rent he suffers.

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