Reply #62: Fine. But ---- [View All]

[outinforce]

You make a convincing argument for gay marriage.

The problem I am having, though, is that you seem to want to limit rights.

You define the issue as that of a person having the right to marry, and then go onto state that "the issue of a right for adults to marry, like all rights is based upon the individual, with "inalienable" rights steming from personhood. rights by definition are not predicated upon the condition of another party and they are inherent, indivisible from the individual."

You then give examples concerning John, Jane, and Tom.

But why doesn't the exact same argument apply to the number of people that a person can marry?

To paraphrase what you said: " then the right to marry is not predicated by the individual who gets married, but by the number of the other parties? this turns on its head the very meaning of rights."