Quoting Adrienne Foster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> I agree on this point, but unlike other issues, prop 8 does have some
> relevance to BASFA.

And, as I point out in my "Kudzu and the Marriage Amendment" essay,
there's something like a 1 in 500 chance that this initiative could
invalidate _my_ traditional marriage -- or that of almost any randomly
selected Californian.  About 100,000 Californians with non-obvious
developmental or genetic anomalies _are_ in that boat.  They just don't
(in most cases) know who they are.

Am I one of them?  Is Deirdre?  Is Pam?  We don't know.  I could be a
man with a transported SRY bloc, or with CAH, or with XXY, and not know
it until incidental genetic typing revealed it.  You could be a woman
with CAIS, gonadal dysgenesis, or Swyer syndrome, and not know it --
until a judge suddenly tells you you're not married any more.

In that sense, if no other, this anti-family legislation has personal
relevance to you, me, and Mr. or Ms. J. Random BASFAn. 

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