I only advocate full rights for people who want to pursue relationships with other adults. I've said that over and over- that probably ought to answer your question (and it's why I don't have a problem with bigamy, or polyandry).
If you want to know WHY I advocate for adults loving each other, in family units, regardless of sex, as opposed to advocating for pedophilia and beastiality- I will tell you it's an issue of power. IMO adults have capacity (theoretically) and the power to control their lives, and make their own decisions, and children and animals do not. Now I honestly don't have a problem with the kind of bestiality that treats animals kindly, and poses no issue any animal control officer would have a problem with (other than a moral problem)- and by this I mean, that causes no harm to the animal- why? Well that should be obvious. We kill animals for food, clothing, and in some cases entertainment- I don't see using them sexually as a very big deal- but since they don't have capacity to contract I don't see marriage as an issue. If you see bestial marriage as an issue to worry about let me know why.
It is my opinion we should discriminate as little as possible. We have to discriminate a little, to protect people who cannot protect themselves- children, those without legal capacity, etc- but we should err on the side of minimal restriction, imo- because what are we really weighing in the ballance? On the one hand we have people's "comfort" with the tradition of excluding a particular group from a very important, and life altering event-no one is trying to tell THEM what to do, but if they are given their way society is allowing them to tell other people they can't have access to something- that something being marriage, and on the other side of the scales we have the lives of people who will never be able to experience the event of marriage, with all that it means- even to gay people, who have grown up in this society, and know what their parents and friends think and feel about marriage- and no doubt they want to have that with the person they love, and share that event with the people they love. I can't say that I see the balance tips in favor of the discrimination. |
