Re: Texas Polygamists--sf in real life?

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:45:30 +0100 in rec.arts.sf.fandom, Brett Paul
Dunbar <brett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote,
In law, the Golden rule, or British rule, is a form of statutory
interpretation that allows a judge to depart from a word's normal
meaning in order to avoid an absurd result.

That is just so sad. It would have cheered me more than I can say,
to have seen all marriages in Texas declared illegal.
.

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