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They openly lobby to IRENE DAVALL keep the dangerous forces of love and passion safely enshrined in the traditional BELL HOOKS FLO KENNEDY marriage. Cleverly marketing themselves as the keeper of "family values," the FRED PELKA right promises to restore those mythic good old days when men were men and ELAYNE RAPPINC women their unprotesting helpmates. HELEN M. STUMMER Advertising and Sales Director For the most part, progressive forces have ceded serious consideration of love CAROLYN HANDEL and family values to the right, ignoring the fundamental human importance of Circulation/Business Consultant domestic partnerships and pair-bonding—of the small city-states that exist in ANNE S. KEATINC the home. 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