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...This concept of marriage is not, as the staff described it, "linked only to procreation and child-rearing." While it is true that procreation is one of the ends of marriage and that a committed marriage provides a stable and healthy environment in which to raise children, marriage is also good in itself as means of uniting the spouses. A homosexual relationship simply cannot be a marriage because the unique two-in-one-flesh communion that is the distinctive characteristic of marriage is only possible between partners of the opposite...
...Stress on reproducibility rather than originality. That is, Xerox, Andy Warhol, photography, etc. turn the concept of the unique and original object into question...
...Cherry Falls: Now this is a high concept. A serial killer stalks a small Midwestern town, butchering young victims who seem to share no common characteristic. And then--gasp!--the link is discovered. They're all virgins! To end the killer's spree, then, there's only one solution: Throw a sex party! All the town's teenagers get together for well-organized orgy, but the killer shows up just in time. As long as they don't cast Jennifer Love Hewitt, we have ourselves a winner...
...Lilith exposed people to women in music. It brought the possibility of a female tour concept to reality. I think it worked well. It's definitely influenced college radio stations, and we are starting to hear a return to alternative music...
...Vermont Supreme Court was right to see through a lower court ruling that held onto a concept of marriage linked only to procreation and child rearing. Many married couples are childless, and many same-sex couples have adopted children; there is no reason to grant benefits to one group and deny them to the other...