At 02:49 PM 2/27/2004 -0700 Michael Harney wrote: >Are sterile heterosexual couples denied marriage? What if the couple does >not want children? IOW, is having children a requirement for marriage?
Of course not..... if it were, that would necessitate a post facto way of invalidating childless marriages - which would be awkward, to say the least. Moreover, the phenomenon of "childless marriages" is pretty much a recent one, so there has not been much action by society to address them. And of course, an infertile heterosexual couple can adopt a child while meeting that child's reasonable expectations for a mother and a father. A homosexual couple, by definition, cannot. JDG _______________________________________________________ John D. Giorgis - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world, it is God's gift to humanity." - George W. Bush 1/29/03 _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l