Will you "Progressives" finally admit it?
My Mann Rick was ridiculed copiously for pointing out that if there was a "constitutonal right" for sexual deviants to get married, then there would be no remaining impediment to incestuous or polygamous "marriages."
And here we are.
If you follow the "reasoning" of all of the lower court cases, it is simply a matter of, What harm does it do? So I ask you, what harm does it do to society if a mature, loving, legally competent brother and sister want to get married? Father and adult daughter? What about four or five Fundamentalist Mormons (4 female, one male) who want to tie the (Gordian) knot?
Under the current reasoning, no law prohibiting such unions can stand. Furthermore, if, say Utah goes it's own way on this, all the other states and the Federal government are bound to recognize those marriages.
Those who have been paying attention to this know that the USSC declined to recognize such a right when ruling on DOMA. But by the time these cases end up at the Highest Court in the Land, there will be so much inertia that they dassn't rule against the right to marry whoever you want.
Rick will accept your heartfelt apologies.
My Mann Rick was ridiculed copiously for pointing out that if there was a "constitutonal right" for sexual deviants to get married, then there would be no remaining impediment to incestuous or polygamous "marriages."
And here we are.
If you follow the "reasoning" of all of the lower court cases, it is simply a matter of, What harm does it do? So I ask you, what harm does it do to society if a mature, loving, legally competent brother and sister want to get married? Father and adult daughter? What about four or five Fundamentalist Mormons (4 female, one male) who want to tie the (Gordian) knot?
Under the current reasoning, no law prohibiting such unions can stand. Furthermore, if, say Utah goes it's own way on this, all the other states and the Federal government are bound to recognize those marriages.
Those who have been paying attention to this know that the USSC declined to recognize such a right when ruling on DOMA. But by the time these cases end up at the Highest Court in the Land, there will be so much inertia that they dassn't rule against the right to marry whoever you want.
Rick will accept your heartfelt apologies.