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To: combjelly who wrote (198044)	8/19/2004 8:49:48 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574711

From the links, I guess you advocate stripping the states of their right to determine what is a legal marriage because they might make their lives more complicated? States have never really had total control to determine what makes a legal marriage. Check out the history of Utah and polygamy. The states have been allowed to set conditions and to regulate marriage but all within a framework of complete agreement of what marriage meant. A marriage had one man and one woman. One state could require a blood test that another would not. One state could say that you have to wait until you are 18 another might let you marry at 16, but marriage had one accepted overall definition even if the details of the requirements varied. Tim