Posted on 04/29/2015 3:51:34 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
On Tuesday, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito decided to make same-sex marriages advocates face the logical extension of their position, asking bluntly why four people of opposite sexes could not marry, given the argument that two people of the same sex should be able to wed. Earlier in the day, he also challenged the basic premise of her same-sex marriage argument, prompting an apology.
Alito fired the question of four partners in a marriage at Mary L. Bonauto, the attorney arguing for same-sex marriage advocates. Alito, a staunch Roman Catholic, threw down the gauntlet in the following exchange:
Alito: Suppose we rule in your favor in this case and then after that, a group consisting of two men and two women apply for a marriage license. Would there be any ground for denying them a license?
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Not quite, a legislature could define marriage as something else and then it would not open all those doors. What opens all those doors is a court deciding that marriage is a right.
Once something becomes a right, then it belongs to everyone. A legislature redefining marriage would keep it still limited, but less limited than in the past.
Somehow all this explicit talk is making me hungry.
Did you mean eggsplicit?
Considering that polygamy is already legal in many parts of the world (mostly Islamic countries), polygamists would be in a FAR stronger position to argue that “two person marriage” is discriminatory, especially if their polygamous marriage was already recognized in their country of origin.
It's already legal for a 16-year-old to marry, with parental consent, in most states. Some states allow even younger, with a judge's approval.
The hidden purpose of the gay marriage movement may indeed be to facilitate legal adult/minor sex. I could see some drug-addict mom giving permission for her child to marry a gay man, in exchange for some cash.
Hmmm... that brings to mind the recent Battlestar Galactica series, where they called the Cylons “toasters”.
There were a few very nice looking “toasters”...
LOL!
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