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Back when the the Civil Unions debate was raging I got a powerful urge to go read the 1955 Marriage Act. God only knows why, but I'm sure I had a good reason at the time, possibly involving an impassioned letter to the editor or to check whether I could marry Bert and/or Ernie. While the Act was strangely silent on such a union, it did give me a whole list of people I can't marry:
- Grandmother
- Grandfather's wife
- Wife's grandmother
- Father's sister
- Mother's sister
- Mother
- Stepmother
- Wife's mother
- Daughter
- Wife's daughter
- Sons' wife
- Sister
- Son's daughter
- Daughter's daughter
- Son's son's wife
- Daughter's son's wife
- Wife's son's daughter
- Wife's daughter's daughter
- Brother's daughter
- Sister's daughter
... which just goes to show, not only were the drafters of our laws thorough, they also had a great, um, depth of imagination.
I mean, seriously, your Son's, son's wife?
Good lord.
4 comments:
Are you saying your Son's son's wife is unattractive? That's not very gentlemanly.
I'm sure she's a fine woman, but my Son's Son is a man who gets a powerful angry, and since I'm probably at least a decrepidly 36 years older than him, I wouldn't want the death on an old man on his conscience.
But see what I find really interesting is the omissions. Nothing in there about not being able to marry my Grandfather, father or son ... just what are they trying to tell us?
And I still don't know whether I can marry Bert or Ernie. Complete silence on the Muppet issue . Most vexing.
If you did marry Bert (personally I'd prefer Ernie) what would the children look like?
good lord woman, now you're just being silly. They're muppets for christ's sake - they can't have children!
We'd adopt.
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