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To: DMaA who wrote (31214)	2/24/2004 1:48:56 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793809

Look, I am provisionally in favor of eliminating ALL civil marriage. Marriage really is a religious institution to me. Government is just along for the ride as far as I'm concerned. So non-religious and mixed marriages should not be recognized, in your opinion?

To: DMaA who wrote (31214)	2/24/2004 1:53:52 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793809

I am provisionally in favor of eliminating ALL civil marriage. Marriage really is a religious institution to me. Government is just along for the ride as far as I'm concerned. Can you mean that you would favor having atheists as well as others not interested in a religious ceremony excluded from marriage? I don't get it. It's never occurred to me that my civil marriage certificate "authorizes, commissions, and licences what we do in our bedroom." (I've always thought it was about a family unit, somehow. A committed couple, children, if they're lucky, for some of the couple's years together. And very few people wait for marriage to have sex.) Commissions? What does that even mean? If you have oral sex does the government commission or license that? Most married couples do engage in oral sex. I suppose there's a survey that would tell us. It's a lot, anyway. I'm surprised at the intimacy of the detail of your adult marital life you consider government business.