do you agree or not? if goverment were to allow gay marriage? should they also allow siblings to marry?

Question

for example if two men/woman could be in-love and marry then why shouldn't a brother and sister who've grown up together and have fallen in-love and became one another's life mates, soul mates, childhood partners, and lovers!!! who experienced first time sex with one another and truly have loved eachother in a more profound way, (then a gay couple who met on a mountain hearding sheep or at a niteclub etc...) should it be allowed? Gay marriage and/or Incestuous Marriages? please respond and explain!!!!

Answer 1

A good point. The reason siblings were originally not allowed to marry was the possibility of recessive genes producing children with severe physical/mental problems.

However, labs have been able to produce 1,000's of generations of animals (brother to sister) with no problems (no "bad" recessives).

So I think the law should be rescinded about sibling marriage. It depends on their genes. And if they aren't going to have children, they don't even have to worry about genes.

On the subject of children, so many unrelated people produce children with genetic problems and the parents had no idea they were carrying "bad" genes. So the sibling law - with reference to problems with their kids - should be rescinded for this reason, also.

I know some religions have difficulty with sibling marriage. I belong to one of those. But the religious prohibition doesn't make sense, so I disagree with it. We no longer are out to "be fruitful and multiply" to fill the earth. We filled it, already. We aren't about to become extinct.

Answer 2

I believe there is a brother/sister test case going on in Germany right now.

Considering technologies like artificial insemination, and the prevelence of divorce and remariage, the possibility of siblings or half-siblings unknowlingly getting together is very real.

The scientific objection to sibling mariage is the danger of genetic inbreeding. The same technologies - artificial insemination, egg donation - could be used to avoid that, allowing them to have children that aren't both of thiers. Just as homosexual couples can have children - just not both of thiers.

So, it's something that's more feasible now than in the past.

Technology also makes preventing it feasible - a genetic test as part of obtaining a mariage liscence could be used to weed out unsuspected siblings & half-siblings, if that was deemed desireable.


The objection to both homosexual marriage and sibling (or cousin) mariages is basically moral - so, yes, if one were allowed, the other would have a good argument for being allowed, as well.

Answer 3

The love between a sister and brother is not the kind of love that should end up in a marriage or sex. That is familial love - sorry to say this, but if familial love is confused with romantic love, there is usually some kind of emotional abuse or illness involved. Those are two very different things. I shouldn't even have to mention the high risk of birth defects that can occur with incestuous breeding....

Answer 4

They could probably allow it, but there is probably a better reason why siblings aren't supposed to marry....I think it's called "genetics" or something like that. Gay marriage is not a problem, because they never get to breed. Sibling marriage is (in dog breeding) called "line breeding" and if you follow this regime, you end up getting some really crappy looking dogs. It also tends to reduce the "gene pool" so once you go down that track too far, it is extremely hard to go back. More better we just allow siblings to fight, squabble, etc. Makes life more interesting.

Answer 5

Your question makes no sense. If a brother and sister love each other in that way, they are not allowed to marry, even though marriage, for now, is defined as being a male/female pairing.

If I remember correctly, siblings aren't allowed to marry because of the possible genetic ramifications for their children. There is no such ramification for homosexual marriages.

Answer 6

Brother's and sister's marrying is bad for the gene pool, as it can create mutations and birth defects that would otherwise not show up. Gay people not being able to reproduce with their partner would naturally not present this risk. Unless of course they made the bad decision to use a siblings genetic material and reproduced.

Answer 7

Here is a question using the SAME logic: if 2 people of OPPOSITE sex can marry, why shouldn't 2 people of OPPOSITE sex be allowed to marry if they ARE brother and sister. Allowing 2 people of the same sex to get married does NOTHING to change that reason, as far as I can see. I see NO reason why the 2 concepts are even discussed in the same breath, being 2 TOTALLY different concepts. It is just one of the MANY MANY fallacious arguments used to try to deny people their rights!

Answer 8

There's a difference between same-sex marriages and incestuous marriages (obviously), for one if the latter couple were ever to have children they could be severely mutated and disabled for their whole lives, plus the deep rooted psychological aspects of their relationship can't be healthy. Plus...EW!

Answer 9

First of all that is nasty. Why in the world would you want to date inside the family? They get annoy enough.

That will never happy children born in an incest, have a more chance of having birth defects, development problems and have higher risk of hereditary illnesses

Answer 10

if two adults want to get married who is to oppose...just remember that some time ago due to political and economical reasons relatives were married and with the bliss of the church...what the.... do you care if a grown up man and his sister want to get married??? if you dont want dont do it but in which way would two siblings getting married hurt you or anyone else?