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Is marrying a millionaire an investment?

Lisa John Mandell teaches classes based around her book, 'How to Snag a Millionaire.' Mandell claims to have received 50... more

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Mike Tyson marries for 3rd time

LAS VEGAS — Boxer Mike Tyson has married for a third time, two weeks after his 4-year-old daughter died in a tragic... more

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Peaches Geldof's ex calls their marriage 'a publicity stunt'

As if this really needed to be confirmed: Max Drummey has admitted his whirlwind wedding to Peaches Geldof was a 'publicity... more

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More Stupid Science: Guys Don't like to Settle down when there are lots o' Ladies

BIG DUH!!! Dudes play the field. Isn't science supposed to be curing cancer? From the Web: "In places where young... more

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Betty Bowers Explains Traditional Marrige

This is hilarious. I'm a big Old Testament reader, so I've always found fundamentalism to be downright ridiculous with... more

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Do Preschool Boys Make Good Husbands?

When looking for Mr. Right you gotta start young.

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Couples who don't get married

Why are some couples happy to start families, but not willing to walk down the aisle? In 2002 25% of babies were born to unwed... more

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Brian & Eileen's Wedding Music Video.

Weddings seem fun.

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Support Gay Marriage--Take The Pledge--Equality California

Supporters of full marriage equality rights can sign a pledge at the Equality California website to show their support. The names... more

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Jon Stewart Questions Steele's 'Gay Marriage Is Bad For Small Business' Theories

Jon Stewart might be "uncomfortable with emotion" -- an admission he made to lead off last night's show. But you... more

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Marry a younger woman and live longer

If men marry a woman 15 to 17 years younger than them, their chances of dying early are cut by a fifth. If the woman is 7 to 9... more

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Frogs hitched in Indian monsoon ceremony

A girl frog and a boy frog were married to one another in a ceremony on Monday that the locals hope will bring an early and... more

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Does reality TV ruin marriage? YES! Duh.

I asked this very same question a while back when Katie Price and Peter Andre announced their separation - right after filming... more

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This is a great way to look at marriage

I found this not only funny but also a great way to look at the archaic laws that govern our lives and see how they do not... more

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How to Figure Out What's Going Wrong in Your Marriage?

Marriages are made in heaven. Once married there is no point in regretting, if things go wrong it is better to find a way to solve... more

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JCS Replacing Patty

Who could replace You? Who could replace Patty Pastrami? Find out on julianscomedystop.tv

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Wedding FAIL - Bride throws bouquet, plane crashes.

An Italian couple had a crash and burn wedding when the twist they planned of the throwing of bouquet came back to bite them in... more

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Does "Shacking Up" Spoil Marriage?

"Couples who shack up before tying the knot are more likely to get divorced than their counterparts who don't move in... more

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What is Marriage - What Makes a Family?

A friend of mine recently wrote me to ask my opinion about Section 297.5 of the California Family Code that grants all the rights and responsibilities of marriage to same sex couples and what is the big deal about Proposition 8 in California. Below is what I wrote him in response. I would love to hear your comments about the issue of marriage. What is Marriage? Now? In History? What makes a family?

Here is what I wrote to my friend:

What most gay people want is Federal Marriage Equality. The LGBT community is split on whether or not to call it Marriage, Same Sex Unions, Civil Unions or Domestic Partnerships. Personally I don't care what they call it so long as the rights are equal as far as both State and Federal law are concerned.

However, there are those in the LGBT community that will not be satisfied unless it is called Marriage and it is recognized by all 50 States and the Federal Government. Some of the vocal activists are actually working for the opposition but their job is to make the other side seem utterly rediculous and to influence the position of swing voters. But that is another story entirely.

I did a paper on Marriage for my Sociology, Anthropology, and Writing classes and I had to study the definition of marriage now, in the recent past, and throughout history. What I discovered is that marriage has meant many different things at different times. What constituted a kinship family tie and the motivation for creating unions has also changed throughout time and in different parts of the world. There has not been ONE version of marriage that has remained constant over the entire world. Of course many people are ethnocentric or plain self centered and don't have an awareness radius of more than 5 feet around them. So these people, who lack much awareness of the bigger picture, assume that whatever is currently their definition must be THE DEFINITION now and for all time. These ignorant people aren't to blame, they are products of the education system they were immersed in and the cultural systems they were immersed in as well.

Since the days that Empires came into existence, marriage within the boundaries of an Empire such as the Babylonians, Greeks, Romans, or Early American (when women didn't have any rights to vote or own property) marriage was a way of conveying wealth and ensuring succession of power and land rights etc. Marriage was a financial contract and the consolidation of the wealth of two families.

In other parts of the world, no empire, marriage has been more fluid and varied. For example, in Island nations of the Pacific, marriage rights and property ownership was vested in the woman. She selected her husband she owned the property. Where as in Native American tribes of North America, marriage/kinship was between a brother and sister as the core group, while the brother chose the father of the baby, the parents were the brother and sister, the father of the child had no parental rights. Other North American tribes had various versions of what constituted a couple and many made accomodations for people they considered "third sex" or "two sexed". Some people have concluded that this was talking about gays or intersexed/hermaphrodite individuals. In most tribal cultures, these people were considered especially blessed by the spirits or gods because of their differences to the majority. And in some places there are formal contracts for marriage whereas in other parts there are informal contracts made on a word; a promise. Does a piece of paper make a marriage?

Well in America today, marriage is still about economics and raising families, only attitudes have changed such that people of same sex can have children either through in vitro or donated sperm or ova. They can form informal families without a paper, but the sticky thing becomes when there is an issue that involves either Federal or State law. It has been proven time and again that no state is under obligation to honor the laws of other stA friend of mine recently wrote me to ask my opinion about Section 297.5 of the California Family Code that grants all the rights... more