Ah, yes, and further to that, Amos, there is the very comparable silliness of anchoring the legal rights of couple-hood to species. My friend Chongo Chimp, for instance, cannot legally marry his lady friend Renata Carson in the state of Ohio...or anywhere in the USA, because he's a chimpanzee and she's a human being! Can you imagine the heartbreak that has caused to both of them? Can you? Furthermore, they have faced gross discrimination and public harassment merely for declaring their love for one another. Truly, we have a long, long way to go before real social justice and equality is established in this world.

As I've said before, I'm in favor of ANY pair of adult beings who freely indicate their mutual desire to marry one another (only and if such mutual consent can be confirmed by impartial witnesses) to have the right to get legally married to one another...regardless of gender, creed, color, nationality or species.

So there. Think you're "liberal", dontcha? Think again, buster. ;-D