***But if Core Element No. 2 can be struck down for that reason, so can No. 1 and No. 3. If the state has no right to deny a marriage license to would-be spouses of the same sex, on what reasonable grounds could it deny a marriage to would-be spouses from the same family? Or to would-be spouses who happen to number three or four instead of two?***
By the same logic, interspecies marriages should be recognized. Why just two people? Barney Frank might like to marry his boyfriend, his gay sister AND his French Poodle.
Larry Flynt might see (another, actually) chicken that strikes his fancy...
Who are we to deny a man the right to spend the rest of his life in a covenant, blessed by God himself, with the farm animal of his choice?