What I Told the Berkeley Law Professor

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I went to hear a law professor at UC Berkeley, which was located a mere three miles from my home, talk about the prospects that California Proposition 8 would be overturned. Prop 8 would alter the state constitution to define marriage as an arrangement between a man and a woman. I had voted for Prop 8, and the professor was openly Republican.

The uninteresting talk delt with the argument that Prop 8 discriminated against same-sex couples. During questions and answers following the talk, I objected that anyone, regardless of his (Yes, I said 'his'.) 'sexual orientation', was free to marry a member of the opposite sex. I was not encouraged to pursue this bizarre idea, and so I did not get the chance to ask whether a couple was a legal person.

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I went to hear a law professor at UC Berkeley, which was located a mere three miles from my home, talk about the prospects that California Proposition 8 would be overturned. Prop 8 would alter the state constitution to define marriage as an arrangement between a man and a woman. I had voted for Prop 8, and the professor was openly Republican.
The uninteresting talk delt with the argument that Prop 8 discriminated against same-sex couples. During questions and answers following the talk, I objected that anyone, regardless of his (Yes, I said 'his'.) 'sexual orientation', was free to marry a member of the opposite sex. I was not encouraged to pursue this bizarre idea, and so I did not get the chance to ask whether a couple was a legal person.

Back in the olden days, it was often done, I understand. In the very olden days, a bloody sheet was shown to show that the woman was no longer a virgin, but there was little checking up on things after that. Toci

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Back in the olden days, it was often done, I understand. In the very olden days, a bloody sheet was shown to show that the woman was no longer a virgin, but there was little checking up on things after that. Toci

A frequent theme in Latin American soap operas (telenovelas) used to be finding out who the heroine's real father was. I remember one tragic telenovela in which the wedding had to be called off at the last minute when it was revealed that the bride's real father was the groom's father, so the couple could never marry because they were brother and sister. There was great gloom and anguish for many episodes until it was discovered that the groom's father was not his real father, so the couple were not brother and sister after all. So they married and lived happily ever after.