Do you approve?

[2kitties]

pops, i know you are through, but you know i can never keep my big mouth shut. i don't think i was clear about why i think it is different than sibling marriages. I get what you're saying. I really do. But i just think that we can't make something illegal simply because it disgusts some people. Imagine how many people are disgusted by interfaith or interracial marriages, by women in powerful positions, by women in the minstry, by blacks using the front door..... we can't go backwards, we just can't. And to AMMEND our supreme document in a way that takes away rights from a segment of the American population who've committed no crime... it's sad to me.

At the end of the day, I think people should be allow by law to do whatever the heck they want to do so long as they don't hurt anybody else. Getting married doesn't affect anybody other than the two consenting adults involved. So, I personally don't think it's anybody's business to regulate who they marry. The problem with sibling marriages is that they result in children who are born of a defective gene pool. They risk birth defects, etc. So, in effect, the marriage of relatives with the intent to procreate is directly harming an individual not consenting to the marriage (the unborn children).

Now, in terms of a child molester doing what comes naturally... well yes. But again, his natural thing harms others. So, therefore it can't be legal.

If it doesn't hurt anybody else- I'm all for it. Two gays getting married and making legal decisions for one another and becoming the beneficiary of their social security (for what that's gonna be worth) is fine by me.

If it hurts another individual- not fine by me.


And I'll add- Britney Spears did NOT make marriage a mockery. Maybe the alcoholic husband beating the crap out of his wife or his children, or the adulterers cheating on their husbands or wives... maybe they made a mockery of marriage. But to assume that just 55 hours in the life of Britney Spears can destroy the institution of matrimony is sort of a stretch.