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To: tejek who wrote (553131)	3/4/2010 1:51:07 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573691

Farnkly, children are the reason families and marriage exist as institutions in all societies. Yes, gay people can adopt, but few do. And yes, not all married couples have children ... most want to though and most eventually do. Heche is an idiot. Most people can't 'flip' their sexuality quite so easily. In fact, I question whether Heche was really queer. Apparently lots of people function as both hetero and homo in various times in their lives. The existence of people like Heche kind of flies in the face of biology as destiny though. So I see you need to call her an idiot and malign her for not being true to her .... sexuality or whatever. What does "really queer" mean? She represented herself as "queer" and hooked up with the comedianne whose name skips my mind. If Heche wasn't "really queer" how can you know anyone who is "queer" is "really queer"?

To: tejek who wrote (553131)	3/4/2010 5:21:24 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573691

I don't think children are a factor in determining marriage. Not directly in determining whether or not a specific relationship is a marriage but they are the reason for the cultural institution in the first place, and the primary reason for societal and government support of and recognition of it. The typical marriage was likely to generate children and these cultural/societal and government actions, ideas, definitions and institutions evolved, and even with today's later marriage, common contraceptive use, and lower desire for children, that's still true, even if to a noticeably reduced extent.