filtherton

Just to play the devil's advocate for a moment...

What's wrong with somebody marrying more than one person? Isn't that idea pretty popular in the bible, god's inaction in the face of polygamy seems to be at the very least, a show of tolerance. What's wrong with polygamy. What's wrong with marrying an animal? Who gets hurt?

The definition of an acceptable marriage is something that has changed throughout history and is also a relatively common means of those with the majority opinion to control and keep themselves separate from minority groups.

Furthermore, it is difficult to convincingly condemn an emerging trend such as homosexual marriage or the theoretical human/animal marriage with no evidence of any kind of any positive or negative results from said trends. More to the point, such things have never happened before and you have no way of knowing whether they will result in an overall increase or decrease in the quality of life of the average human being.

That being said, the slippery slope argument always seems to boil down to "Well, it doesn't really seem like a good idea to me", which isn't always the best way to make decisions that affect millions of people. I think that if we truly are a nation that respects the religious rights of all of our citizens and marriage is truly a religious institution than i can't see how we as a nation have any choice other than to honor a religious commitment that has not proven to harm any on its participants or society in general.