[quote=cooprider]Wasn’t going to get into 8, but I’m surprised by some what I read here.
Where do you stop?
What’s to stop 3 men from marrying? 2 men and a woman? A man his dog? An adult and a child? And so on…
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The government should not discriminate against civil unions between consenting adults solely because those unions don’t conform to the definition used in a certain religion.
It can be argued that a child cannot consent to marriage (although examples of children getting married off to adults are present even in the Bible), same with the dog.
There are probably many laws on the books that implicitly assume that marriage is always between two people. It would be technically challenging to include polygamy; other than that, I don’t see why it should be excluded.
