Clarisse McClellan's Daughter

They might be illegal still, but the same can be said of homosexual relationships until the comparitively recent past. The illegality, it should be noted, does not mean it does not occur. My point was that the criteria for homosexual marriage so often seems to be that we as a society have no business prohibiting two loving, consenting adults from marrying, when in fact we do that all the time and no one seems to notice. I'm not talking about the question, "who are you to define love," I'm simply referring to the legal ramifications of opening up this discussion. If we as a society recognise marriage between two people simply because they are consenting adults (love need not even apply), then we're going to need to recognise more things that are distasteful than simply homosexual marriages because we've left it simply to a matter of preference.

I should say that I hope I have not been disrespectful, but these are the questions I wonder about when I engage this topic. If no one else wants to consider this issue, then I'll shut up about it. I think it's important to be logically honest about what we're planning on doing with our society's laws, and all the more so when it hinges on something that has such far-reaching tendrils as marriage.