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Originally Posted by MikeSTI
so I guess I'm going to jump back in..........with out having a religous tone.
ok lets say we let gay marriage happen in the same fasion as strieght marriage. Sence we now say anyone can marry guy/girl, guy/guy, gilr/girl.
It could provide a slippery slope in the legality of marriage (e.g. having multiple wives or marrying an object could be next). Gay rights activists claim that these marriages should be allowed because it doesn't hurt anyone, but it could start a chain reaction that destroys the whole idea of marriage. If someone wants to marry his dog, why shouldn't he be able to? What if someone wants to marry their brother or parent? What if someone wants to marry their blow-up doll or have 10 wives? Unless we develop some firm definition of what a marriage is, the absurd options are endless.
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Good points. But another thing to consider, so what if it's legal to marry a dog? Chances are there's maybe one person in the country that would try it. Does that one person really make a big difference? Meanwhile there are tens of thousands of gay people that want the benefits of marriage; tax relief, adoption rights, health care coverage, etc, etc, etc.
Perhaps it would be okay to limit marriage to "between two people". It's when you start putting conditions on the type of people that are allowed to marry that it becomes discrimination.
*runs off to elope with an antelope*