Originally posted by Kremithefrog: And what if a guy wants to marry 20 women. Or a horse. Or... I know those are extreme, but that's the point some people are making. It opens door for stuff. I think a civil would be ok. Marriage, by common definition, is The legal union of a man and woman as husband and wife (dictionary.com). I'm not into changing long long standing traditions, especially ones that mean something to me.
Did giving women the right to vote open the door to household pets getting voting rights?
Of course not. And it's absolutely ignorant to even go down that slippery slope.
For hundreds if not thousands of years the concept of a divorce didn't exist -- we sure didn't mind altering the widespread traditional values and meaning of a marriage for that. Amazing how when something is convenient to people their opinion on it changes.
