"Ed" <edsmith@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:MPG.221628acebe81fef98a1e1@news.individual.net... Christian Williamson <c.willi@verizon.net> wrote: Meldon wrote: "Christian Williamson" <c.willi@verizon.net> wrote in message news:whWqj.4698$G94.3112@trndny02... Meldon wrote: As distasteful as it may sound and assuming it is not already too late,

this is another of those 'societal' issues that so often confuses the historical religious foundation for 'marriage' vs the more contempory desire and indeed human 'right' for equal treatment. precivilization, genders were separated by capability and tribal/clan function - often neopagans held 'handfastings' to reognize a union. as mankind became more versatile in manipulating the enviroment