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br> -- Jonathan Shultz /p>

The author of "Gay Marriage, Hollywood Style" is on target. Mr. Yale's account of a future world with Gay Marriage is more accurate than most know (or will admit). As a resident of both San Francisco and L.A. over the last several years, I've seen a few failed gay civil unions. The resulting legal fire-fights rival anything I've witnessed with my conventionally married friends when things go Splitsville.

Just combine an affair (suspected or actual -- it doesn't seem to matter), bruised egos, significant assets to contest (a nice home or two, a portfolio, an IRA, 401k plan maybe an art collection…), add a few aggressive litigators representing the respective contestants (er, ah, I mean parties), and the resulting shooting-war will be indistinguishable from any conventional marriage-on-the-rocks.

Granted, a failed civil union is likely to be a matter of contract law. Even so, this matters not once lawyers get involved. There's little civility left in the union, and ultimately the best lawyer wins, irrespective of the law (sounds like marriage to me...but I digress). Having gone through a divorce, I believe this to be a definition of true equality under the law. Forget a constitutional amendment banning Gay Marriage; this is hardly a matter for Government to decide. This issue is best left to the professionals: divorce lawyers.

BTW: Mr. Yale's article is one of the most entertaining pieces I've read in the Spectator. He also seems to have clear insight of how things really work anytime more than two people are involved in any union. Hopefully the subject parties will be honest enough to admit as much, be they gay, straight, or undecided.

p>In closing, I think the Spectator would do well in putting Mr. Yale under contract. His account of Hollywood marriages of all types could very well evolve into a riveting best seller or two, a syndicated column, and probably an HBO series. br> -- A.W. Zlogar br> Santa Barbara, California /p> p> Heh-heh. Enjoyed very much. It's really an indictment of homosexual promiscuity. Andrew Sullivan is not going to like it.

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