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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (542924)2/19/2004 8:00:14 PM
From: Steve Dietrich  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
<<There is a purpose to marriage, Neo, and that purpose isn't glomming onto someone else's health insurance. Marriage existed long before the benefits gays are REALLY after. It is those material benefits, not marriage, that is the REAL issue for them.>>

Actually, according to my much revered document on the history of marriage, marriage was all about benefits:

In 1600, marriage for almost all Europeans and Europeans in America was primarily an economic arrangement negotiated between families in which family considerations of status, future economic stability, and prosperity were the most important considerations in selecting a potential spouse.

Steve Dietrich



To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (542924)2/20/2004 6:41:03 AM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
That is fine as far as it goes, but we permit marriage between the elderly, where one party is presumed menopausal. We do not inquire into whether a party to marriage is infertile, for example, by asking if he had a vasectomy or testing for low sperm motility. Indeed, we do not exact a commitment to procreate, as a civil matter: some couples simply choose not to. Thus, the Procreation argument is ambiguous, at best.........


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