It's very easy to make that mistake here if you persist in thinking of marriage as "a man and his chosen marriage object" rather than, you know, "two people choosing to marry each other. None of these people have ever expressed a worry that dogs will start wanting to marry men, or that houseplants will start wanting to marry cars. This way of thinking only makes sense if your view of straight marriage depends on "man actively choosing, woman passively chosen" and gay marriage only fits into your worldview as the distortion "man actively choosing wrong thing," as though it's a Sesame Street comedy sketch with Mr. Noodle trying to marry a pocket watch by mistake, presumably with his pants on his head.
YES. OH MY GOD.
YES.
Anyone who honestly wants to say that Pedophilia/Bestiality/Incest deserve the same rights as same-sex marriage need to be thrown off the nearest cliff. Into a pool of starving sharks. Thank you.
A marriage should be a relationship between 2 or more
CONSENTING ADULTS. Genders should not matter, the number of people in the relationship should not matter.
SPECIES MATTERS. AGE MATTERS. Stop acting like because 2 women or 2 men get married that now we have to legalize a relationship where there is 1 or more parties that
cannot give consent.
You don't have to
like Poly relationships (I, for one, do not) to see how some people enjoy that lifestyle and consent to be in that kind of relationship. There is no reason to keep that illegal if everyone involved wants to be involved. There should be regulations, obviously, as there are cults and religions that *force* girls and women into polygamist lifestyles with men that are going to rape them, but forced/arranged marriages in general should be completely banned and punishable by life in prison (because it
is, in fact, rape). That's not up for debate because being okay with forced marriages, where one or more parties is discontent, is equivalent to being okay with rape. So. That's on you, if you feel that way.
Now I will say, 99.9% of the people I've seen talking about how same-sex marriage means that now all of these things will become legal are
conservatives people who were unhappy about the legalization of same-sex marriage to begin with. So it's hard to completely take that argument seriously, because we already know that group of people are dramatic, argument starting, trolls. I know more than anything they're just trying to ruffle the feathers of those that condone same sex marriage and somehow compare it to raping animals or children. Realistically, this is not the case.
There has never been an argument between two consenting adults getting married aside from marrying outside of your race, or marrying someone who has the same gender as you. That's it. So, starting arguments that now we can marry animals or marry children or marry our uncles is just ridiculous. This is no different from marrying any other consenting adult, except that now we can choose whatever gender we want instead of the hetero-normative idea that one man + one woman is the only kind of legitimate, morally sound relationship there is.
That being said, I'm ready to see more acceptance for the entire LGBTQ+ spectrum instead of just assuming
everyone in a same-sex marriage is gay. There are bi/pan/poly-sexuals that are in same sex marriages. There are bi/pan/poly-sexuals that are in a marriage with two separate genders (myself included).
EDIT: Wanted to add and say that polygamy is NOT the only kind of multiple person marriage there is. Polygamy just covers one man with many women. There is also one woman with many men, one *gender* with many *assorted genders*, and even a relationship where the whole group is ONE relationship and they all marry each other. Again, you don't have to 'like' it, but there are people that are in that kind of relationship and are all adults, consenting, and super happy in that lifestyle. So.
