Article: ODD TO BE TROUBLED BY GAY MARRIAGE.(MAIN)

Byline: CYNTHIA TUCKER

Trista and Ryan got married.

If you don't know who they are, you're somehow immune to the contagion of popular culture. Trista Rehn and Ryan Sutter, the fiance she chose in a televised competition, are all over the airwaves as ABC relentlessly promotes their romance-for-ratings. The network has inflated the nuptial into a three-part miniseries, which culminates on Wednesday with the vows.

This marriage has about as much chance of survival as the first of these tasteless spectacles, the union of ``Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire'' groom Rick Rockwell and his bride, Darva Conger. It collapsed within days.

Many conservatives have ...

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