>Yeah, you should start leading again by cross-species marriage too.

They keyword is consent. Animals can't consent. Children can't consent. Having said that, in a few years (decades?), I could see poly-marriages also getting equal standing under the law.

There is no question that this is the case. This video a guy articulates this, be warned I suspect that his conservative opinions and religiousness may rub some HN users the wrong way. However I think his point is persuasive and well made nevertheless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcs1K7Gi9Pg

The question is, is that so bad?

The graph-theoretic algorithms necessary to puzzle out polyamorous marriage contracts are going to be somewhat irritating to explain to the legal folks...

I think they'll manage - $$$

Marriage between two consenting adults is not a slippery slope to bestiality.

I'm not sure why this keeps coming up in some circles. Is it maybe due to some difficulty accepting that gays are people too?

Wait can animals consent to marriage? Isn't that a pretty necessary component?

One of these days, I'll earn the right to downvote a hateful comment. Seriously, any analogy of gay marriage and marrying animals is outright hateful.

As I learned recently, you can click the time stamp of their comment and flag it for moderator review on the resulting page. That's the path to reporting hateful or unacceptable speech.

what? what's hateful? How's giving animals the status of humans hateful? I gave a no analogy there. I mentioned a possibility. Also, I am pretty sure 100 years back someone mentioning that gay marriage should be legal was categorized as hateful.

> Marrying your pets should be legal too

What benefits would marrying your pet bring? And why marry when you already own?

I had a dog once whose soul I would have been fine to have bound to my own until death did us part which... sadly did happen.

Maybe I'm ready to start seeing other dogs.

I downvoted because you're a troll.