[meandog]

The point is: When with the line of moral absolutism be drawn...IMHO, gay marriage is a particularly slippery slope. If gays can legally marry, what's next? Polygamy? Why not, it was once the norm in much of Utah; still is in the Arab world, which argues the West marries one at a time (divorce/remarriage) while they do it all at once. Then there's incest...why not marry kinfolk? One could make the same basic plea that gays and lesbians make about "love" and monogamy...

I am a bit open-minded to the gay community about having access to such things as survivor benefits, insurance, etc.; but marriage is out of the question. The marriage ideal is A man, and A woman, in A committed monagamous relationship, for A lifetime!

[Campion]

If gays can legally marry, what's next? Polygamy?

Objectively speaking, polygamy is much less morally disordered than homosexual "marriage". (For example, the Mosaic Law permits polygamy, but punishes homosexual acts with death.) Society can't very well endorse a greater perversion while prohibiting a lesser one. The same goes for incest between consenting adults.

[eleni121]

Polygamy in the Arab world?...Well, yes partly but not necessarily exclusively Arab.

You probably meant the Muslim world, of which many are Arabs but certainly the minority.. There are probably millions of Arab Christians who consider polygamy to be as degrading as anyone. Polygamous marriage is a Muslim phenomenon...with many tribal societies adhering to it as well.