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For millennia- and still in some cultures- marriage brought men and women together primarily to birth children, Ms. Gallagher is correct. However, it was, in many ways, a financial transaction between families. Women did not have the choice of who they would marry, they were given to another family to bare children and continue the family line. Is this what Ms. Gallagher believes marriage should continue to be? 

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It strikes me as patently absurd that you are treating this as a worthy "news" issue. How about the fact that Directv subscribers don't receive cable access or the OR house channel? That's something actually, you know, AFFECTS people.

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