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Article: LETTERS IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
- Article from:
- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- October 7, 2004
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Byline: The Register-Guard
Measure 36 doesn't make sense
I don't understand this amendment to the state constitution, Measure 36. I listen to people talk and they say that only one man and one woman can marry. Now is that forever?
Some say that marriage is for raising children. I was raised by a single parent, and my mom raised three of us. We all turned out pretty well.
The proponents for Measure 36 say that marriage is for procreation, too. Does that mean that people who are sterile or past the age of having children can't marry?
Is it because the homosexual community will have something that the heterosexual community has ...