On 10/3/2017 6:01 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 3, 2017 at 8:53:23 AM UTC-10, Bruce wrote:
>>
>> Marriage has nothing to do with it. The 50s are over. Lots of people
>> see marriage as a useless piece of paper. An unnecessary government
>> (let alone church) approval of your relationship.
>
> Marriage is a useful, perhaps vital, institution if one is raising kids. It might not be relevant in a society that no longer cares about raising kids. Not having kids is trending these days. As a matter of fact, so is not being able to have kids. It looks like nature is saying "screw it" to the human race.

And if one believes the social noise level the incidence homosexuality
is on the rise as well - all nature's non-breeding tools.

> OTOH, my daughter's boyfriend recently did a most anachronistic thing: he took her to a restaurant, got down on one knee, presented her with a ring, and asked her to marry him. I thought that was a little nutty myself.
>
> No, it wasn't a McDonald's.

Too many punch lines to even pick one here...