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It doesn't matter if they're grown adults. A parent is in a position of power over their offspring, in one way or another.
Which means that there is no logical comparison whatever between incestual marriage and the marriage of two actual consenting adults.
Nonsense. I don't know how old you are, but if you're an adult and mommy still has "power" over you, as you put it, then perhaps it's time to grow a pair.
So what? Anybody can cherry pick to reach any conclusion they want. I can argue that marriage as an institution can only mean between one Italian and another, since that's the way it appears in my family tree as far back as I can trace (about 1720).
It would be stupid, but it's a perfectly analogous argument to yours.
I don't actually know any of them. And I voted for Bush.
Hmm.... so you would have to know a Genocidal maniac, a child molester and a big spending war mongering president in order to loathe them? I've never been in prison, but I don't need to commit a crime inorder to know that it's a bad place that I don't want to be in.
Nonsense. I don't know how old you are, but if you're an adult and mommy still has "power" over you, as you put it, then perhaps it's time to grow a pair.
Way to be a deep thinker.
A parent will always have some kind of power over their children, in some way or another, doesn't matter how old they are. The parent/child relationship is very complex, even when everybody is an adult.
Especially if they are having sex. At some point, the child was a minor and the parent was a parent. The dynamics of that don't just go poof after you turn 18.
A parent will always have some kind of power over their children, in some way or another, doesn't matter how old they are. The parent/child relationship is very complex, even when everybody is an adult.
Especially if they are having sex. At some point, the child was a minor and the parent was a parent. The dynamics of that don't just go poof after you turn 18.
Nonsense. It's time to cut the strings and move outta moms basement.
So what? Anybody can cherry pick to reach any conclusion they want. I can argue that marriage as an institution can only mean between one Italian and another, since that's the way it appears in my family tree as far back as I can trace (about 1720).
It would be stupid, but it's a perfectly analogous argument to yours.
The institution of marriage comes from the Romans into our culture. No one else. If we want to include homosexuals we need to redefine that definition. I think polygamists and people in incestual relationships have a cleaner argument to get the definition extended for them, than homosexuals. At least what they want to do is more in the spirit of the institution as originally founded.
Nonsense. It's time to cut the strings and move outta moms basement.
If a parent and child are having a sexual relationship, don't you think there's a bit more to it than the failure of the child to leave home?
Do you really think that there's nothing deeper going on there?
You're talking about a parent and child getting MARRIED, and you say the parent doesn't have some kind of perverse power over the child? Are you freakin serious?
I already answered that, but since you didn't insult or attack me, I will answer again. Throughout he annals of history, marriage has always been defined as the union between a man and a woman. This is pertinent for a stable family unit and for the foundations of a family. I do not believe that it needs to be redefined.
I was under the assumption that "outliers" were a given. My apologies for assuming, I should know better. There have always been fringe elements of all institutions, but historically speaking, marriage has been defined as 1 man and 1 woman.
Ummm, no.
It's better to research a topic before you present it so poorly and present yourself as so very wrong and dishonest.
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