From: Free Lunch 

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:13:22 -0400, in alt.atheism Dionisio
 wrote in
:
>Free Lunch wrote:
>
>> It's a social convention. There's no reason to refuse to give the
>> benefits and responsibilities of marriage to gays.
>
>For some reason, I'm feeling ornery, and thus do I take this challenge.
>
>There *is* a reason to refuse same-sex marriage; AND it's the same reason used
for
>heterosexual unions: Inlaws.
>
>Anna Nicole Smith, anyone?
>
>Terry Schiavo?
>
>The Menendezes?
>
>Might as well kiss a viper on the fangs. (And once Patrick meets Joe's Uncle
Ismerelda...
>Well, you get the picture.)

That might be true, but my nephew isn't actually married, but he still
hates his (not exactly) in-laws. They're just part of the relationship
whether there is a law related or not.

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