Yes.
Or it should be.
WHY do people think they have the right to dictate behavior to consenting adults?
MYOB.
are you OK with incest relationships or polygamous marriages?
Oh gawd, here we go again.
How old are you?
For the thousandth time, if it does not harm underage children, I don't really care what consenting adults are doing. I don't care if they're male or female or some of both.
That said, incest, even by adults, is based on the parent having power over the child and polygamy means that only one couple's children are legit. Additionally, there has been at least one morm sect that forced underage girls into "marriage" with adult men.
Unlike you Duck Dynasty fans and devout catholics, I believe children should be protected from predators.
So you -are- a hypocrite, then?
Adults can't be trusted to say "no" to their parents sexual advances? Holy shit, if my mom wanted to **** me, I wouldn't be able to say no loudly or quickly enough. I'm sorry, I get that a lot of rape victims are afraid to say anything in their defense, either during or afterward, but I don't agree that we should restrict all of society in order to account for a few individuals' errant lack of survival instinct.
Sometimes, when people with social anxiety are ordering fast food, the lady at the register asks them if they'd like fries with that, and even though they don't, they feel pressured to be agreeable and their social awkwardness drives them to order fries that they didn't want. We should ban fast food cashiers from offering fries. Too much pressure on the weak-of-will.
Also, simply because there have been cases of polygamists doing perverted shit to underagers, that doesn't mean that we should outlaw polygamy.
This is EXACTLY the same argument a lot of really ignorant right wingers apply to homosexuals. Every time there's a recorded case of same-sex molestation, it's "That's why you don't let gays be teachers!" As though the fact that one homosexual did something fucked up means that everyone who is attracted to the same sex has no problem victimizing children. Since I typically find myself on the same side of the argument as you -only- when it applies to gay rights, I know that you understand how errant this line of reasoning is.
Equally errant is the idea that, because there have been individuals who are both polygamists -and- sexual deviants, polygamists are therefore high-risk child molesters. Even if they were, would forcing them to marry only one person stop them from ******* kids?
Holy God damn what a dumb ******* thing to say.
Lastly, only one couple's children are legit? Depends on the definition of legitimate, doesn't it? There's no legal designation for bastards. As a bastard, I can say this with full confidence.
Therefore, the only legitimacy you can be referring to is social legitimacy, as dictated by our culture. The same culture that continues to dictate that homosexual marriage isn't legitimate. I find it odd that you have no problem defying the cultural opinion that gay marriage is illegitimate, but in response to the cultural opinion that some CHILDREN are illegitimate because the union from which they came wasn't an exclusive one, you believe that type of union has to be outlawed.
Which is it? Is the will of consenting adults and their right to love who they wish more important than cultural opinion, or should popular values dictate what sorts of love are okay? IT can't be both.
