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Originally Posted by WCW Nitro
I agree completely with you, and I have mentioned many times that no, I don't foresee a huge demand of siblings wanting to get married. But the stance against this is a moral one, and I don't think numbers should dictate your moral position on an issue. My only point is this, if you are for same-sex marriage, you should in theory have no problem with 2 sisters or brothers getting married since in both cases it does not affect your personal life. This does not mean that I think it will lead us down a road where millions are demanding the legalizing of this type of marriage.
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Well really, if we're trying to go back to traditional, original marriage in the Bible, if we go back to Adam and Eve and their children--well yeah, by that standard we should
definitely allow siblings to be married, because if the creation account from the Bible is to be believed, the entire human race started with one couple, and that one couple gave birth to children, and presumably those children would've had to get married to each other and give birth to their own children, who would've had to then marry either siblings or cousins for quite a few generations.
So I mean, if we really want to get traditional and go the way the Bible says, pretty much anything is fair game. Sibling marriage, cousin marriage, marriage between a man and a woman (and a bunch of concubines) or a man and like 700 women (Solomon), etc, etc, etc.
Even in the Bible alone, the "definition" of marriage changes throughout. If a man is to "leave his father and mother and stick with his wife" why is he allowed to have a bunch of concubines? Why was he allowed to marry a bunch of other women?
And I'm just curious, since you're so worried about the sanctity of marriage--how adamantly against divorce are you? Should it be illegal save for cases of obvious and documented adultery?