>Now you are grabbing at straws. Between legally consenting homo sapien adults only. We're not talking about separate species here and I wonder how many thought that if blacks were given equality that the same should hold true for cats and dogs? The right for ADULT consenting homosexuals to marry does not condone nor legalize pedaphilia.

Did I missing something here? What does dogs and cats, and even homosexuals, have to do with pedophilia?


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>>>No I do not. A civil union is not the same thing as a marriage under the federal law nor in most states. There are many rights afforded to marriages that are not afforded to civil unions. It should be up to each church whether or not they will allow a marriage between members of the same sex (just as they decide now between members of the opposite sex - not all churches will marry everyone as it is now and that is religious freedom) but not the government. A legal marriage in the eyes of the federal government and every state government regardless.
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>>Should a man be allowed to marry a child? What about an animal he is particularly fond of? How about an inanimate object - like a life size doll? What would it matter?