Re: [UUPoly-L] Cheney Speaks

["Michael Rios" <earthfather@cfnc.us>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:  WABaldwin@aol.com

> 
>  
> In a message dated 6/3/2009 7:22:03 A.M. Pacific Daylight 
> Time, JasmineGld@aol.com writes:
> 
> "If  freedom to marry means, as he said, that  people ought 
> to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish, well 
> then,  he's virtually endorsing 
> polyamory and polygamy, and incestuous marriage, and   
> bestiality," Barber 
> claims. "[There are] no holds barred here."   
> 
> 
> So I'm curious -- since someone always brings this up....
>  
> I know that some people have sex with animals, 
> but...reallly.....how many people want to *marry* them??

The real answer to this is "consent".  Any arrangement among *consenting
adults* should be allowed.  Goats can't give consent; neither can children.
"Incestuous" marriage already takes place legally in all manner of
circumstances; it just needs court permission, depending on how closely the
parties are related.  

Michael Rios