Summary
Lawrence E. Merrill's legal arguments against gay marriage ("Gay marriage promotes societal risks," BDN, Aug. 24) make no more sense than those based on religion. He gives much thought to the changing racial and sexual equality over the last two centuries, but a lawyer ought to see value in a homosexual couple's equal right to a spouse's health insurance and a spouse's end-of-life decisions.
His most outrageous claim, familiar from religion-based arguments, is that equality carries no guarantee that "those already married can't embrace polygamy, pedophiles can't marry young children, or animal lovers can't marry their sheep." Polygamy, though still legal in some countries, has been outlawed in the United States for over a century. Pedophilia and bestiality are not about marriage but about power over a weaker victim. Pedophiliacs often use their own children, even exposing them on the Internet.See the full content of this document
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Marriage Fables
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