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How America can end its divorce epidemic Posted: April 7, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern By David Kupelian © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com When 32-year-old Paul and his 17-year-old fiancee Anna walked into the Norristown, Pa., courthouse to apply for a marriage license, the justice turned them down flat when he learned they had known each other for only one day. Yet after much pleading and persuasion, the judge reluctantly granted them their license, and Anna and Paul were married three days later. The wedding, held at Paul's brother's house, wasn't much – only four people in attendance, no wedding gown, no flowers,...

NEW YORK -- They weren't exactly playing dice at the foot of the cross. But here in the media epicenter of the Jesus question over the "greatest movie controversy ever manipulated" there were these lawyers, equally divided between Jewish and Christian, looking at San Francisco as their new cash cow. On the tellys high above the smoke-varnished back bar of the tavern in which they were drinking, the news screens were divided between cable talking heads discussing topic A: Mel Gibson's Jesus movie; and topic B: San Francisco's gay-marriage parade and George Bush blowing the battle trumpet against it. The...