People have some choice over who they marry, at least those involved in inter-racial marriages probably have some options within their own racial grouping who they could be attracted to, gays don't generally get that luxury.

In both cases if you don't like the mix don't do it yourself, if you do like the mix but your religion does not allow it change religions.

R0bert

I'm not homophobic - houses don't scare me.

Is dementia hereditary?

I'm going to call "foul" on this.

Foxy: >>Must we only recognise marriages between a man and a woman?<<

Austin Powerless: >>I wonder if you included children and animals with your 21st Century thoughts. Or even machines (I love my car).<<

Foxy: >>No - I'm not suggesting anything of the kind and frankly I'm surprised that you'd think I would. A marriage is a commitment between two consenting adults.<<

HermanYutic: >>You grant yourself the "right" to redefine marriage and then deny that same "right" to anyone else.<<

The point AP and HY carefully overlook is that "man and woman", "man and man" and "woman and woman" are all subsets of "consenting adults".

Children, animals and Austin Powerless' car, are not.

So the suggestion that there is a parallel between Austin Powerless' suggestion and Foxy's is specious.

It's the old Boaz/Polycarp argument, rehashed. If you don't have Jesus as your moral compass, it follows automatically that you condone paedophilia and bestiality.

Codswallop.

Pericles,
Obviously you do not live in a real world where these things are practised and approved of and frequently promoted.

Pericles,

I wasn't going to bring incest into it but seeing as you insist:

The point you carefully overlook is that "father and adult daughter", "mother and adult son", "father and adult son" and "mother and adult daughter" are all subsets of "consenting adults".

Pericles,

Silly me limiting it to hetero and homo versions of Oedipus and Electra:

The point you carefully overlook is that "adult brother and adult sister", "adult brother and adult brother"
and "adult sister and adult sister" are all subsets of "consenting adults".

I suppose I could also list all the various possible menages a trois, quatre, cinq, etc,
made up of "consenting adults" of course, but I'll leave that to you.