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<DIV>Chas,</DIV>
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<DIV>Marriage has always been a profound and binding social contract. To
allow anyone to marry when they have no need to do so, when the contract was not
initially conceived with them in mind, would be to lower the uniqueness of
marriage to the point of irrelevancy.</DIV>
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<DIV>Is not the real goal behind this push simply to access spousal benefits and
the like?</DIV>
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<DIV>To preserve the benefits of marriage to those for whom such benefits were
intended and tailored, is appropriate.</DIV>
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<DIV>If we allow those engaged in unnatural and unhealthy pairings to marry,
what would prevent someone from demanding the right to marry their sister or
their cocker spaniel?</DIV>
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<DIV>We need to remember that certain behaviors are inappropriate. We are
still bound to politely tolerate them, but we are hardly bound to
champion and celebrate them.</DIV>
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<DIV>Best, --Tony</DIV>
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<DIV>"You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick
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