<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-family: Arial; ">Gary wrote: "Why don't you explain to me all the myriad ways in which you being able to marry your partner is a benefit to me and/or society?" Can you answer this question, Gary? Are you suggesting that if one doesn't have and answer to this question, then the state need not allow the marriage? Should this be the standard for what the state allows and what it doesn't e.g. whether it is a benefit to society? Funny this didn't come up in the smoking issue!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.289062); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.222656); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.222656);"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.226562); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.226562);">Your pal, Joe<br></span><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Aug 13, 2009, at 7:14 PM, "g. crabtree" <<a href="mailto:jampot@roadrunner.com">jampot@roadrunner.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite">Why don't you explain to me all
the myriad ways in which you being able to marry your partner is a benefit
to me and/or society?"</blockquote><div></div></body></html>