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Article: Marriage mocked plenty by straights
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- December 9, 2003
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TRISTA and Ryan are getting 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 denounced the prospect of gay marriage
because, they say, ...