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Re: Stop the anti-marriage bill!!

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From: George Boggs
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 00:00
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In article <4iujk2$1rs@peabody.colorado.edu>, thomassm@ucsub.Colorado.EDU
(Elusis) wrote:

> In article <gboggs-2103962024330001@192.0.2.1>,
> George Boggs <gboggs@indra.com> wrote:
[...]
> 
> However, it's often couples where HIV is involved that need the very 
> protections same-sex marriage offers (hospital/deathbed visitation, 
> deciding what to do with the body, sound wills, joint property ownership, 
> spousal coverage on insurance...).

No argument there. I simply think that previous and current partners
should be informed if someone tests positive. With the latency of
symptoms, I think that might do a great deal to dampen the velocity of the
disease through the population for those partners with a shred of ethics.
  
[...]

> >
> >It has often been outlawed. Fortunately, no one knows how to enforce it.
> 
> We can't even enforce the criminality of non-CONSENSUAL sex.  How the 
> heck are we supposed to enforce consensual, unmarried sex?  Bedroom 
> police?  Pah.  <spits>[...]

Note my use of the word "fortunately". I suspect we agree on this point.

-- 
G. Boggs                     I'd rather be rich than stupid.
                                                 J. Handey
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From: gboggs@indra.com (George Boggs)
Subject: Re: Stop the anti-marriage bill!!
Date: 1996/03/23
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