Do you take these people to be your spouses?
Has anyone every considered a Defense of Marriage Act that would define marriage as between two people? Wouldn't this get rid of the whole slippery slope argument against gay marriage, that once gays can marry, you'll find that your sister's married to three guinea pigs, an eight-year-old boy, and your second cousin Steve? I don't have any idea of what the "obvious" legal objections to this would be, but I'm sure there are debater-types out there who'd be happy to shoot this down.
I don't really see why marriage has to be defined by the government at all, but if it is, it may as well be done in as inobtrusive a way as possible. And yes, I realize I'm not thr first person to think this. But it needs to be said, again and again...
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but then the DOMA as you define it doesn't get to the incest. and as we all know, it's important to keep cousins from marrying, because otherwise the south would rise.
Nick, couldn't the federal law make all marriages be between 2 people, leaving the states to decide who those 2 are?
why would we need such an amendment? the states already have, and already exercise, that power...
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