Thanksgiving is the one day set aside every year to enjoy a guilt-free meal of turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberries and all the trimmings.

If you're hosting such a feast this year, consider offering your guests a waiver: the Center for Consumer Freedom's Thanksgiving Guest Liability and Indemnification Agreement. During this season when food cops, public health activists and trial lawyers are promoting hysteria about the nation's expanding waistline, the center believes Thanksgiving should remain a holiday for giving thanks and indulging.

Dinner hosts can download the waiver (www.consumerfreedom.com) and protect themselves from lawsuits filed by guests on the following grounds:

1. Failure to provide detailed nutritional information

2. Failure to warn of the potential for overeating because food tastes too good and is provided at no cost

3. Failure to offer "healthier alternatives" like vegetarian "Tofurkey"

4. Failure to warn that dark meat contains more fat than white meat

5. Failure to warn that eating may lead to obesity

"This waiver will prevent your guest from appearing as a witness on behalf of John 'Sue the Bastards' Banzhaf, who is threatening to sue restaurants, food companies, and school boards for the nation's extra pounds," center director Richard Berman says of George Washington University law professor John F. Banzhaf III, often called a "legal terrorist."

REDEFINING BLISS

A Federal Marriage Amendment crafted by the Alliance for Marriage has been introduced by Republican Senators Wayne Allard of Colorado, Jeff Sessions of Alabama and Sam Brownback of Kansas.

AFM president Matt Daniels says introduction of the measure confirms that momentum is growing in response to the recent court decision striking down the marriage laws of Massachusetts.

"Americans believe that gays and lesbians have a right to live as they choose but they don't have a right to redefine marriage for our entire society," he says. "Americans want our laws to send a positive message to children about marriage, family and their future." Continued...