{English Bishops, Registry Office Weddings [continued]}[16th October 1989]

[Redbook6:325][19891016:1169d]{English Bishops, Registry Office Weddings [continued]}[16th October 1989]

.1169

[continued]

People are surprisingly sensible: the flexible concept of marriage may not produce the ideal result every time, but there is a lot of built-in redundancy in human [sic] relationships, and I would far rather have a child brought up by a mother and grandmother (and hopefully a grandfather), or by a mother with a father who still felt free, then by a husband and wife feeling locked into a marriage which one or both* had [not] felt ready for. 

 Once again, the alternatives – particularly in Marina Ogilvy’s** case – can be presented starkly in terms of the Circles:

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			C
			Attraction
			|
			Unity		S
	r	Love	←	Ordination
	–		+		–
			|

What she and her partner want is inner circle; what her parents want*** is outer circle.

*[Originally ‘neither’ in ms, deleted and corrected to ‘one or both’]

**[[Redbook6:322-323][19891016:1169]{Marina Ogilvy}[16th October 1989]&f]

***[According to her; her parents did not, it seems contribute to the programme.]

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