Prop 8 is to get a ruling today

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Originally Posted by Ghostwriter

My remark about NAMBLA is quite apparently over your head. It is more a statement about the slippery slope that may be in front of us (some posters got it and, as was thier right, refuted it) With people like you (who believe anything goes) the NAMBLA statement is probably not that far out of the realm of possibility. See, I can make stupid assumptions too.

The slippery slope is a logical fallacy, not something you should actually worry about.

How about this? I don't give a damn about what people do in their own lives or behind their own closed doors. I believe that gay people should be allowed "civil unions" and should be allowed to take care of their significant others and have certain powers of attorney. I do not believe that they should be discriminated against in any way shape or form.

So let them be married instead of having civil unions so they're not discriminated against in any form.

But let's take this further. Why do we have rules against marriage between close relatives? This type marriage does not hurt others and if they really love each other than why not? The notion that sexual love should be the sole criterion of marriage is in my opinion erroneous.

Besides of public health reasons there is also a high potential of abuse due to power differentials inherent in the relationship. I don't have a problem with it as long as there aren't kids and there truly isn't a power differential. It would probably require siblings to grow up separate for that to actually happen. But I appear to be on of the few people who doesn't have an incest squick button.

There are real "slippery slopes" that can be now considered not out of the realm of possibility. Bigamy, polygamy and communal/group marriage are among these.

A) No those aren't actually slippery slopes.
B) You're redundant.
C) Bigamy is fraud, it will always be illegal.
D) Polygamy as practiced by FLDS groups is child abuse.
E) Polyamory/group relationships are good things when freely consented to, but there's no way to make it equal to marriage with all the legal entanglings involved. People in long term group/poly relationships often have unofficial marriage ceremonies. However it's implausible and improbably, however unfortunate that legal marriage could be extended to more than 2 people.

Stop caring what consensual adults do in bed.