Of course, nobody’s denying postmenopausal women the right to marry, so it’s not a sincere argument, but that’s the argument.

For this reason, their freedom of religion argument undermines their polygamy argument. If a man can marry a woman, and his religion either permits or demands that he marries four women, then why can’t he?

“But if we redefine marriage as simply a loving, romantic union between committed adults, what principled reason would we have for rejecting polygamist or polyamorous — that is, multiple-person — relationships as marriages?” Same question. If a man can marry a woman, why can’t he marry four? And what does the answer to that question have to do with gay people marrying?

there are a lot of reasons why– the need for a wholesale rewrite of all child, family, labor, welfare, and contract laws, just for starters. for gay people, all that is required is to change “man and a woman” to “two unrelated competent adults.” ery thing remains the same.

As for marriage being for irresponsible straight people, that was the same argument that the Supreme Court (or whatever it is) in New York advanced for not allowing gay marriage. I always have to ask: “Who is it again that’s trying to redefine marriage?” Because THAT idea certainly is a redefinition of marriage, a slap in the face to every actually married couple, and in complete opposition to the idea that straight people aren’t supposed to have sex until they are married.

Having attended over 1000 weddings, i have never heard that reason discussed, even if it were true.If I were still photographing weddings, I could hardly wait to hear Msgr. Ratzi announce, “we are gathered here together becuase John accidentally knocked up Mitzi”.

For example step children are automatically one’s children when marrying. No adoption needed. When doing artificial insemination, the husband of the woman is usually automatically the father. Although he isn’t the biological father. In Iowa a court ruled decades ago that a soldier returning from WWII was the legal parent to his wife’s child although there was no chance that he conceived it.