Posted on 02/24/2004 6:36:30 PM PST by vannrox
A WEST AUSTRALIAN couple who are brother and sister by adoption but unrelated by blood are battling a federal law preventing them from marrying.
Kevin and Deborah Jefferies have been in love for at least 10 years and wish to get married, but under the Federal Marriage Act 1961 ? which prevents brothers and sisters from marrying ? their relationship is taboo.
The couple became siblings on paper when their parents married and Kevin's father adopted Deborah and her sisters.
"There's so many people who can get divorced so easily ? we can't even get married to start with," Kevin told Channel Seven.
"If you love somebody you marry them ... it's more than just a piece of paper."
Just damn.
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They fight over the armani suits and wall hangings.
Shorten it to plain "M," for married. As for the surname, in the spirit of individualism, they can each decide which to use, could be the same, or different. All this protocol stuff is so confining. It must be against the law or something.
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