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I disagree with you, but your position is certainly consistent.

However, I'm still looking for someone who supports Rosie's right to "marry" her partner, but supports locking up this daddy for "marrying" his adult daughter. I suspect they're out there in large numbers. But I don't expect to find a very well thought out position on their part.

If you go to DU, you'll find that they DO oppose polygamy, but ONLY because of the difficulty with child support laws, divorce statutes, etc. However, they did admit it would take a lot of time to implement changes in the law regarding gay marriage, because there are CENTURIES of law to overturn/amend.

Actually I sort of doubt that gay marriage supporters would want this couple barred from marrying. Most of them seem to have a completely libertarian viewpoint on relationships (as I do) but overlay that with their socialist tendency to love government involvement in everything, and therefore insist that the government issue them (and everybody else) licenses. Of course, they claim unfairness in government providing certain privileges to married couples that are not provided to unmarried couples. And I'd have a lot of sympathy with that position, if it weren't for the fact that the privileges are offset by all sorts of government meddling that only comes into play with a marriage license, such as tax penalties, government-mandated estate laws, etc. Personally I think anyone who wants the government involved in their domestic life in any way is nutso!