Yep. To me Ms. Walters seems to have hit the nail on the head. In so doing however the reductionist simplicity thus revealed makes me wonder if those of us agitating for reform are not tilting at windmills? For to carry Ms. Walters axiom on, it becomes a societal imperitive that we each acknowledge and respect each other's way of being. If we can't achieve that then how can we bring about legislative change?

P.S. Cranky - I know, and have been included in different societies where friends are accepted as family. Not in a legal or empirical sense of course. Which is part of the reasons one argues for change, isn't it?

Cranky is 100% correct. Long live the nuclear family!