Originally Posted By: rex
The thing that most right wing nuts don't get is the phrase "consenting adults". They whine and bitch about if gays get married it would lead to people marrying animals and pedophiles marrying kids. Neither kids nor animals can give consent. This is what people like g-man don't understand.


The only arguments I've heard refer to polygamy, and they're right.

The institution of marriage wasn't built on the idea of marrying "consenting adults."