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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (21500)	8/11/2001 3:04:04 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Family I have no problem with. A family can be any grouping it chooses to be -- many cults consider themselves large families. Didn't Koresh call his grouping a family? But family is not a legally defined term (other than by the Census bureau). Being a member of a family doesn't automatically entite you to any specific legal rights. You don't have to go through a legal process to leave a family. The term marriage, in our society, does have very specific legal connotations, does bring with it certain specific legal rights and obligations. For example, if I give food to a starving person, I have no legal claim on their family to pay me for the food. If they are married, I have a legal claim on the spouse to pay me. Aside: if we do go for plural marriage, so that a person has more than one spouse, would we say he has two spice? Seems fitting, somehow!