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This is beyond nutty. Civil marriage is the creation of joint legal (and partly financial) entity. It requires 2 consenting, rational beings.
Wasn't it you who claimed upthread that marriage is whatever civil law says it is? If the law tosses the consent requirement for marriage, then consent is not required for marriage. Right?
This is beyond nutty. Civil marriage is the creation of joint legal (and partly financial) entity. It requires 2 consenting, rational beings.
But go ahead and talk to your #1 fan Harrier. He thinks grow men should be able to wed 12 year old girls.
A 12 year old isn't capable of being rational?
Where do you set the arbitrary cutoff age, hammertime?
I notice that you didn't link to that thread, probally becuase you don't want it to be known that I slammed you for not acknowledging the practice of arranged marriage in other nations, which of you seem to be intolerant.
You will also recall that in that thread, i told you about my classmate in high school in the Seattle area, whom in 1994, at the age of 16 married a man who was 30 years old, due to her Indian parents value of an arranged marriage.
Why are you so intolerant of other cultures and their practices?
Wasn't it you who claimed upthread that civil marriage is whatever civil law says it is? If the law tosses the consent requirement for marriage, then consent is not required for marriage. Right?
Yes. Civil marriage is a legal construct; it's defined solely by how it's written in civil law. That said, it has to comport with the Constitution. Non-consensual, forced marriages fail that on so many levels.
Wasn't it you who claimed upthread that marriage is whatever civil law says it is? If the law tosses the consent requirement for marriage, then consent is not required for marriage. Right?
Liberals hate having their own "medicine" thrown back in their face, because it always prove them and their nutty ideas to be WRONG.
Yes. Civil marriage is a legal construct; it's defined solely by how it's written in civil law. That said, it has to comport with the Constitution. Non-consensual, forced marriages fail that on so many levels.
Who ever mentinoned "non-consensual" and "forced" marriages but you?
Demonstrate to me how such marriages are being enforced?
Who ever mentinoned "non-consensual" and "forced" marriages but you?
Demonstrate to me how such marriages are being enforced?
You can't.
Can you not follow a simple conversation?
WP is saying that if we rewrite civil marriage to allow gay marriage, then there's nothing stopping us from rewriting civil marriage to get rid of the consent requirement (i.e. - rewriting civil marriage law to allow non-consensual marriages). It's a ridiculous slippery slope argument that fails to understand what civil marriage and how it works in our legal system.
And of course I can't demonstrate how non-consensual marriages are being enforced. I'm the one who's arguing they can't be in our system of governance.
Sure you did. I quoted you without any modification.
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Originally Posted by hammertime33
Can you not follow a simple conversation?
WP is saying that if we rewrite civil marriage to allow gay marriage, then there's nothing stopping us from rewriting civil marriage to get rid of the consent requirement (i.e. - rewriting civil marriage law to allow non-consensual marriages). It's a ridiculous slippery slope argument that fails to understand what civil marriage and how it works in our legal system.
And of course I can't demonstrate how non-consensual marriages are being enforced. I'm the one who's arguing they can't be in our system of governance.
Why are liberals so apt to LIE?
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