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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.religion.christian
Subject: Re: Is General Goodness just a moral principle?
Message-ID: <605@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 17:29:50 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  1 17:29:50 1985
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In article <5409@fortune.UUCP> brower@fortune.UUCP (Richard brower) writes:
>
>And some ceremony in front of a priest, preacher, or minister (of the Christian
>faith, I presume) is the only way to make that trusting commitment.  I have to
>disagree and my reasons are personal.  This sounds like another way of saying
>'you aren't married, your relationship is not "real"'.  I hear this regularly
>about my (gay) relationship, but there is no legal mechanism for marrying two
>men (can you say 'catch 22'?).  I can say "bullshit".
>
	I would say that the important thing is the public commitment,
*not* the legal recognition of it.
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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