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So last January 22nd, around January 22nd earlier this year, there might have been, you might have noticed straight people, straight people listening.

You might have noticed that your marriages, your traditional marriages, your opposite sex marriages felt a little more secure,

a little more protected, a little stronger. You were less likely late in January of this year

to divorce your spouse or abandon your children because in Australia, a gay man and his husband

were on their honeymoon and one of them died.

And it became a big problem because Australia doesn't recognize same-sex marriage and refuse to issue a death certificate to the partner of the deceased man, to the grieving husband of the deceased man, listing him as the next of kin.

So all the funeral arrangements were screwed up and put on hold and repatriating the body was a huge fucking nightmare for this guy for Marco Bomer Rizzi, whose husband, David, Bulmer Rizzi, had died in an accident in Australia on their honeymoon.

And this is what we're told needs to happen happen that same-sex couples, our relationship shouldn't

be recognized because that threatens traditional marriage.

And we need to protect traditional marriage from same-sex couples getting married to and

somehow persecuting or refusing to recognize the relationships or marriages of the same-sex

couples make straight people's marriages stronger and more everlasting somehow.

I'm not sure how that magic works exactly, but we have it on papal authority and an American

family association authority, that that is how it works.

Shit on same-sex couples, attack people in same-sex relationships, undermine their

– refuse to recognize their relationships, and by some magic transitive power, opposite-sex

relationships are healthier and stronger, and those marriages are – your marriages are more secure.

So this couple, same-sex couple, persecuted at the

worst moment in their lives. As John Corvino says, the most important incidents of marriage,

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