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DUNMOW, England, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- Organizers of the Dunmow Flitch Trials are considering inviting same-sex couples next year to the British contest to find the happiest married couple.
Michael Chapman, one of three members of the Flitch Trials Committee, said he supported inviting gay couples after legislation on civil partnerships was approved earlier this year, the London Telegraph said.
Chapman said nothing precluded civil partnership couples from applying to the trials that were first mentioned 900 years ago, the Telegraph said. All entries are considered on their merits.
The trials, mentioned in The Wife of Bath Tale in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, are conducted every four years, the Telegraph said. Couples must convince a judge and jury that during a year and a day that they haven't wished they were single again. The prize is a flitch, or side, of bacon.
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