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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: goldworldnet who wrote (678604)4/8/2005 3:53:59 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
"You don't pull the plug on someone over the objections of family members, certainly not parents."

1) But that's how traditional marriage law has been for many HUNDREDS of years --- dating to before we were even a country, dating to English common law and earlier. When a couple marries, their parent's 'rights' over their actions are voided. The couple become a new whole, bonded to each other.

To change that, to grant rights to parents over their married offspring, you'd have to TOTALLY REDEFINE TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE. It would be a mere shell of what it is now. (Hell, with 'gay marriage' all you've got is *more* people wanting to gain the exact same legal rights that marrieds have today... but if you WIPE AWAY THE LEGAL RIGHTS OF MARRIAGE, then you have redefined to whole thing. It wouldn't be marriage any more, it would be co-habitation. Childhood would NEVER end!)

2) If 'parents gain an over-riding legal control' over their married offspring... then would the grandparents have an over-ride over THOSE decisions? Would the greatgrandparents be able to over-ride even that??????
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