If you support the redifinition of marriage, do you support consensual incest? (crime, marriages)

[Sophiasmommy]

Originally Posted by zombieApocExtraordinaire

Where we got the word marriage is the Roman word matronium (matrimonial) has in its root word, matr (mother).

The institution of marriage has been a man and a woman since the Roman days. Why should we redefine it to include homosexuals?

In my opinion, polygamy and incestual relationships have a stronger argument for marriage than homosexuality.

Marriage Equality. Duh! That's why anyone should be allowed to marry anyone.

[odanny]

con·sen·su·al (kn-snsh-l )adj.

[HistorianDude]

Originally Posted by Sophiasmommy

How about Secular Fundamentalist Nuts, are they allowed in the "bedroom"?

No.

[Sophiasmommy]

Originally Posted by HistorianDude

Remarkably strong emotions towards someone you have never met.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that you've never met Hitler.

[Sophiasmommy]

Originally Posted by odanny

con·sen·su·al (kn-snsh-l )adj.

As usual, you're 6 pages late. Lazy, lazy, lazy.

[HistorianDude]

Originally Posted by zombieApocExtraordinaire

The institution of marriage has been a man and a woman since the Roman days.

Not every where.

[FinsterRufus]

Originally Posted by Sophiasmommy

Hmm....that's interesting. If they're grown adults, why not?

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.

[HistorianDude]

Originally Posted by FinsterRufus

I don't think it's possible, due to the nature and complexities of a parent/child relationship, for there to be a true consensual sexual relationship between the two.

This is a very, very good point!

[HistorianDude]

Originally Posted by Sophiasmommy

Really? You don't loathe Hitler, Jerry Sandusky, George Bush?

I don't actually know any of them. And I voted for Bush.

[zombieApocExtraordinaire]

Originally Posted by HistorianDude

Not every where.

The institution in the West has. Since the Roman empire, uninterrupted until very recently (bar some emperors making exceptions for themselves so they could marry their male lovers).