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		<outline created="Wed, 12 May 2010 15:09:42 GMT" text="Confronting the next taboo: Single">
			<outline created="Wed, 12 May 2010 15:13:08 GMT" text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/scriptingnews/2494080913/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://images.scripting.com/archiveScriptingCom/2010/05/12/kagan.jpg&quot; width=&quot;145&quot; height=&quot;137&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;15&quot; vspace=&quot;5&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named kagan.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/37114.html&quot;&gt;Elena Kagen is not gay&lt;/a&gt;, she's single."></outline>
			<outline created="Wed, 12 May 2010 15:13:38 GMT" text="We've decided that gay people are okay. Maybe now we'll decide that single people are too."></outline>
			<outline created="Wed, 12 May 2010 15:13:58 GMT" text="A related issue comes up from time to time, esp in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=greenwich+village,new+york&quot;&gt;Village&lt;/a&gt; -- where people make a wide variety of lifestyle choices. Should gay people have the right to marry? Of course they should, I say. If two people want to make a commitment to each other, how can anyone else say they shouldn't? It's hypocrisy for conservatives who say the government must stay out of people's lives to then turn around and say that marriage is between a man and a woman. It's okay to believe that of course, but it's not okay to deny people rights if they don't conform to your beliefs."></outline>
			<outline created="Wed, 12 May 2010 15:16:50 GMT" text="Here's what I do have a problem with -- the government being in the marriage business, and the government giving tax benefits to people who are married. "></outline>
			<outline created="Wed, 12 May 2010 15:17:30 GMT" text="I don't sign the petitions that call for amendments allowing gay marriage. It can be awkward because people assume this is because I'm against gay people. It's not so. I'm against the government having a stake in the relationships between people, or lack thereof. "></outline>
			<outline created="Wed, 12 May 2010 15:18:17 GMT" text="So I think it's great that Elena Kagen is straight and single, and may well become a Supreme Court justice. It's about time that people who say they want diversity of representation get to stretch a little. "></outline>
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