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Originally Posted by Rudey
There is nothing in this world more permanent and contractual outside of dying. That is the end all, be all.
And there are legal contracts giving you control, ownership, and possession of animals.
Consent is not an issue. It is your inability to accept that some people may like to marry an animal, have sex with an animal, just as it is the inability of many people to not be comfortable or accept gay sex or gay marriage.
-Rudey
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Consent is a requirement of marriage, so, legally, it is an issue. (There is no legal contract to own or posess an animal that the animal also enters into.)
I do understand that some people may want to marry or have sex with animals or children, as has been discussed in this thread. There are plenty of moral and ethical arguments against this, as well as some of the religious arguments that have been used here against homosexuals. I'm not presenting any of those. I'm just saying that as the law currently stands, animals and children are not able to give consent to sexual acts or enter into a contract of marriage. If you want to make the argument that people should have the right to marry animals, you are getting into bigger legal waters.
Also, shinerbock, things you may have heard about and don't want to discuss isn't a strong basis for argument. Plenty of things creep me out, but I can't argue that they should be illegal.