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As you gaze into that special someone's eyes tonight (or just settle into the couch to watch some softcore on Cinemax) it's worth recalling that St. Valentine was a martyr, not just to love and faith, but to the idea that marriage is not among the things we ought to render unto Caesar. John Coleman has the story.
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Ron Hardin|2.14.05 @ 2:47PM|#
Actually, you are not married, but you marry each other; everybody else is a witness.
The state gets in with privileges and obligations. For example, you speak for each other in the hospital, and the hospital has to go along with it.
|2.14.05 @ 3:14PM|#
"But would Valentine see this as a problem of the state or of individual responsibility?"
I believe he would have seen it as a problem of sin.
"For millennia, state entities have manipulated the people through matrimonial bureaucracy."
A right Valentine would probably have reserved for the Church? (Just trying to ask myself "What would Valentine do?")
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|2.14.05 @ 3:51PM|#
Hmm....that's odd.
According to the History Channel, the story of St. Valentine is "shrouded in mystery" and involves UFOs and possibly Oswald.
|2.14.05 @ 4:05PM|#
You always hurt the one you love. That explains the Valentine's Day Massacre.