Of course this is coming. And then someday a guy will get to marry his goat.
An argument used against the idea of marrying a goat is that the goat cannot give consent. But that is looking at it from a sexist perspective. What if the goat comes on to a woman? I would think that such action would mean that consent by the goat was given. He made the first move.
Then it gets more interesting. If a woman can marry her goat, why can’t a man marry his female goat? Why can’t a homosexual man marry his male goat? Once marriage has been redefined, the definition will logically keep expanding.
It is indeed a slippery slope!
And the absurd example you give only slightly exaggerated....
Well, then neither can a person who has been found to be incompetent to care for themselves. So people who say consent is required would have to approve of county clerks denying the mentally retarded or people with dementia the right to marry each other, anyone else, or as many people who they love even if they are gay, interacial, dwarf and bipolar, which would make it mandatory for county clerks to be bigoted and also compel them to violate the Americans with disabilities Act.
Or something like that.
I can't wait for the confusion that a child custody case brought by a Cherokee traditionalist is heard and the argument is made that a brother of a deceased mother should be awarded custody of the mother and father's children because in Cherokee custom the children were not raised by the father but by the brother of the mother. If the definition of marriage is now wide open in the law then so must be the definition of family and in some families then the rights of the uncle exceed the rights of the biological father ...
And speaking of marriage, there's the muslim "marriage for a day"... are clerks now obligated to issue certificates to the same person every twenty four hours when he changes spouses after a quickie divoces?
In the case of polygamists then will the clerks have to issue one marriage license and let everyone have a copy or does a separate license have to be issued for each person in "the" relationship? And what if each of the hundred spouses lives in a separate county- do we then need multiple licenses issued in each county?
And it will be quite entertaining when a polygamist in a divorce where both parents are polygamists with multiple spouses is forced to pay support for all of the people and children involved...could be hundreds of people. Imagine what the calendar would look like when trying to figure out visitation rights now that marriage means anything anyone wants it to mean.
Isn't judicial activism fun?
If dairy goats could be found to consent to marriage to a human, the question is, who issues the marriage license - the county, the farm bureau, or the US FDA, or the Dept of Agriculture?