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  UNMARRIED COUPLES THREATEN
  "MORALS BREAKDOWN"        
                                        
 Church of England Bishops were tonight 
 urged to take action to stem the rising
 number of couples living together.     
                                        
 Canon Michael Walker of Bury St Edmznds
 in Suffolk told the General Synod,     
 meeting in York, that this threatened  
 "a total breakdown in morals".         
                                        
 He said "in his highly respectable and 
 traditional area" half of those coming 
 to a church wedding lived together.    
                                        
 Canon Walker said some clergymen were  
 insisting that cohabiting couples      
 confessed they had "done wrong" at the 
 wedding service.                       
                                        
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