Well, as Euterpe said, this wasn't my question - I'm asking why you'd object to gay marriage, other than for religious reasons.
On this tangent, so long as all parties are freely consenting adults, I've still got no strong feelings and no particular concerns.
Incest is an exception; the taboos against sibling marriage are rooted in very sound biological reasons, perhaps less applicable now that general genotypes are more spread rather than 90% within a small clan, but I don't believe this would be safe. (besides, me marry one of my own sisters? Eewww. And it would probably be mutual.)
Otherwise, marriage is a contract I'd personally think of between two people, but I've no special objection if some form is worked out between more, of whatever genders.
It has rather less backing from our particular culture, which barely has extended families still less multiple parents, but cultures change - and obviously Islam for example has a very long tradition of polygamy, plus I seem to recall that the OT implies that senior Jews had rather more than one wife ...
King David and King Solomon
Led merry, merry lives,
With many, many lady friends
And many, many wives;
But when old age crept over them,
With many, many qualms,
King Solomon wrote the Proverbs
And King David wrote the Psalms.
Of course, any culture allowing this would need to work out what if any tax/benefit structures to apply, and how to construct both marriage and divorce (consent of all? between two partners? etc etc)... but these are technical quibbles.
So, why not, on rational grounds? Remembering of course that an orgy doesn't automatically make a marriage, any more than any other casual sex... |
