Keep in mind that not all of these are mutually exclusive.
It’s possible to combine some of these:
1. Open marriage
Where one or both spouses agree to let the other have sexual
partners outside the marriage.
2. Homosexual marriage
Marriage between (at least) two lesbians or sodomites.
3. Incestuous marriage
“Incest” is an umbrella term.
Technical
“Incest” can be purely technical. For instance, you could
have a blended family with two sets of kids from different marriages. Legally
they are siblings, yet they are really in-laws rather than blood relatives.
Likewise, different cultures have different prohibited
degrees of affinity. In some cultures, marriage between cousins is incestuous
whereas that’s morally licit in other cultures. Some cultures favor endogamy.
In analogy with homosexual marriage, I think the type of
incest in view would be parental incest, whether parent/underage child or
parent/grown child.
Sibling
A sexual relationship between a biological brother and
biological sister.
Adult
Consensual sexual relations between adult family members
(e.g. father/daughter, mother/son, uncle/niece, or adult siblings).
Parental
Sexual relations between a biological parent and biological
child, whether minors or adults.
Homosexual
Sexual relations between family members of the same sex.
When Christians compare homosexual marriage to incestuous
marriage, that’s probably
shorthand for something more specific, like parental incest.
4. Polygamous marriage
Marriage between three or more parties.
5. Bestial marriage
Marriage between humans and animals.
6. Pederastic marriage
Marriage between an adult and a child or minor of the same
sex.
7. Pedophilic marriage
Marriage between an adult and child or minor of either sex.
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Proponents of sodomite marriage typically resent these
comparisons. So I’m going to say a bit more:
i) Proponents of sodomite marriage become oddly Victorian or
prudish when opponents compare sodomite marriage to incest, polygamy,
pedophilia, or bestiality. But when did proponents of sodomite marriage
suddenly develop these sexual hang-ups? Why are they entitled to find these
alternative marital arrangements morally invidious when Christians are not
entitled to find sodomite marriage morally invidious?
Fact is, once you accept sodomite marriage, then there are
no rules. We can define and redefine the rules at will. The rules are whatever
we say they are, from one day to the next. It’s just a social convention.
ii) This isn’t just hypothetical. Muslims practice polygamy,
child marriage, and–in the case of the Pashtun–pederasty. In the current
political climate, it’s very easy to see how Muslims in America would demand
legal accommodations on all three fronts, in the name of multiculturalism.
Muslims already wield great political clout in Michigan.
In addition, the American Psychiatric and Psychological
Associations have been softening their historic opposition to pedophilia.
iii) What about bestiality? Some American Indian tribes
reportedly practiced bestiality. So you could imagine American Indians demanding
a legal accommodation, just like they did with Peyote.
Likewise, OT prohibitions against bestiality presume its
occurrence among pagans. Well, what about neopagans?
In addition, millions of Americans like their pet animals
better than human beings.
So what really stands in the way of bestial marriage, once
sodomite marriage punches through?
Then there's marriage between children. What if two five-year-olds want to marry? Don't they have a right to it? How can you oppose marriage equality?
ReplyDeleteSomebody might want to marry an inanimate object, like his car, in order to express his devotion to it or for some other reason. Who are you to tell him he can't do it? Marriage is a flexible term. Why not include inanimate objects as well? Only a bigot would oppose that.
If you oppose a man marrying his Corvette, that makes you an autophobe.
DeleteYou are comparing apples and oranges here. In addition, this website has an unusually strong fixation on homosexuality.
ReplyDeleteCurt Day
Delete"You are comparing apples and oranges here."
Actually, I'm comparing fruits and nuts.
Curt Day
Delete"This website has an unusually strong fixation on homosexuality."
Your many comments evince an unusually strong fixation on homosexuality.
Your many comments evince an unusually strong fixation on homosexuality.
DeleteI couldn't resist giggling at that.
"Proponents of sodomite marriage typically resent these comparisons."
ReplyDeleteThere are a couple of possible explanations:
1) People often tend to condemn perversions other than their own.
2) Whether they like it or not, they realize that many people still find these sorts of things to be worthy of condemnation and find the comparisons to largely not be helpful for foisting their particular perversion on society as something to be considered acceptable.