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As always, politicians are extolling the virtues of "family life," which can be a bed of delight or, as readers of Greek drama, Shakespeare, the Bible and News Of The World well know, a fruitful seed-bed for murder, incest, sadistic cruelty and pathetic marital deceit. Which is more moral, a marriage in which the drunken father beats the wife and sexually assaults the children, or the loving home and long relationship of a gay couple living with two longhair terriers in Guildford?
-from The Summer Of A Dormouse, by John Moritmer