John Dawkins and Penny CooperPensito Review wishes this couple in England all the best.
…with a combined tally of 179 years, John Dawkins and Penny Cooper have become the oldest newly married couple in the country.
Mr. Dawkins, 89, from Exmouth, Devon, said yesterday: “It is a wonderful thing to love – it gives me a great amount of pleasure to be with her. Without a shadow of a doubt, I would have been a very grumpy old man if I had not met Penny.”
P.R. editors have withstood weeks of reading comments from Mormons (ever since we started posting on the Proposition 8 election victory in California, which outlaws gay marriage) who claim procreation, not love, is the rightful purpose of marriage.
We wonder how long it will be before Mormons and other religious nationalists decide to outlaw marriage between older people, or when one of the partners is sterile, or in the case of second marriages where the parents feel there are already enough children to be raised, or when the partners agree the world is overpopulated, or…who knows?
We’ll just stick to our view, which seems so much simpler. If two grown-ups decide to marry and they aren’t already, then they can.
Especially if they love each other.
