Taz writes:
Actually, many of us do believe people ought to have the right to bestiality.
You're right. Heterosexuality, homosexuality, bestiality, bigamy, incest, fucking your stamp collection”nothing I can think of should be banned from marriage. But it's a moot point. Any two hermit crabs of either sex could get married on Animal Planet, if the producers decided to hold ceremonies. "Marriage" is an ambiguous term”you can have a marriage between two 2x4s. It's the "civil union" part that matters. If gays want to join in civil unions, let them. If they want to call themselves "married," let them. Let every one and every thing get married in whatever kind of place they choose. But let's not give civil-union rights to amorous pets and farm animals, or to other sexual persuasions that have no socially redeeming value.
The government should get out of the marriage business altogether. Just stick with civil-unions. I think the idea of civil-unions for gays has socially redeeming value. And I think that when gays demand that their civil unions be called "marriages" is clear evidence that they are more interested in coming out of the closet than in joining the ranks of reasonable people.
”HM