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Americans Continue Love Affair With Marriage

By Deb Price, Creators Syndicate. Posted July 9, 2007.


Marriage will keep winning popularity contests because adaptability is one of its most enduring traits.

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Saving marriage...
Posted by: Michael Boldin on Jul 9, 2007 11:45 AM   
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This social and religious institution has been distorted into something it never was - a political issue. Over the last century or two we've allowed politicians to define what marriage can be and can't be.....

What really do they give us - they bribe people with tax refunds. But, once you get your permission slip to marry, what do you now have the permission to do that you didn't have permission to do the day before? It's absurd.

The best way to protect marriage is to get it out of the hands of the politicians altogether. Then we can make decisions with our loves, our families, our selves, our communities, our churches, etc.

Some further reading:

"Here's How to Defend Marriage" - click here

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Marriage is to uphold righteousness in human society
Posted by: Chickensh*tEagle on Jul 10, 2007 4:14 AM   
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And the extra-righteous deserve extra wives.

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» Satire: inflicted upon the many... Posted by: ABetterFuture
I don't care, abolish marriage entirely
Posted by: ateo on Jul 11, 2007 6:54 AM   
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It's a pointless religiously based institution.

Marriage is meaningless with divorce rates and infidelity these days anyway so it needs to be redefined.

Rather than extending the pointlessness of marriage to homosexuals how about we just get rid of it entirely?

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