XPost: sci.psychology.psychotherapy, alt.consciousness, talk.origins   
   From: mightymartianca@hotmail.com   
      
   On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 01:08:56 +0000 (UTC),   
   John Wilkins  wrote:   
   > Raan  wrote:   
   >   
   > ...   
   >> I have a better idea... abolish marriage as a legal contract.   
   >   
   > I *like* this. We could replace it with parental agreements and   
   > partner's powers of attorney, inheritance registration as part of   
   > will-making, and so forth.   
   >   
   > Then, marriage could be purely a church affair, and non-church folk   
   > could organise a (non-legal) ceremony for whatever they like...   
      
   It's rather ironic that this may actually come to pass, that Christians,   
   trying to defend their narrow, religious definition of marriage, will end up   
   destroying it as a civil institution.  Ah well, a rose by any other name...   
      
   --   
   Aaron Clausen   
   mightymartianca@hotmail.com   
      
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