That's precisely what I would expect her to say.
They tend to forget, though, that marriage is not a religious contract but a civil contract. For example, churches in the past (and maybe in the present) have supported plural marriage, but they have never been civilly valid. Koresh claimed to have several wives, didn't he? But the state didn't accept those as lawful marriages. Churches can only create those marriages that the state approves of, and the church simply acts in the matter as an agent of the state -- you still have to get a marriage license from the state, meet state requirements such as age, degree of consanguinity, blood test, etc.
If we are really going to redefine marriage, of course, there is absolutly no reason to stop at same sex marriage; plural marriages, parent-child marriages, etc. must all be permitted too, if the principle is that there is a right of privacy in marriage relations. |
