A Legend In His Own Minefield

A Legend In His Own Minefield

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FAITP's Annual Roundup of the Most Interesting Towns in the USA

FAITP's Annual Roundup of the Most Interesting Towns in the USA

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John Mendelssohn
Sep 05, 2010
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FAITP's Annual Roundup of the Most Interesting Towns in the USA
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Klezmer, Arkansas. The municipality’s having become the first in the country to make divorce a capital crime, Mayor Vicki Gomez explains, stems from the city council’s realization that “forbidding perverts of the same sex to wed goes only so far toward protecting the sacred institution of marriage.” Unhappy couples have been slipping out of town by the …

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