On topic discussion regarding homosexuality  Volokh, Eugene
VOLOKH at law.ucla.edu Thu Apr 15 17:58:12 PDT 2004          I
actually agree with Frank's argument that if there is a
constitutional right to same-sex marriage, founded in the
parties' autonomy, one can plausibly ask:  Why not a right to
marriage between cousins (where such a marriage is forbidden),
between adult siblings, or between more than two people?   I
think there are distinctions that can be drawn, especially
between monogamous marriages and polygamous marriages, but it's
not obvious that those distinctions are sufficiently persuasive,
at least as a theoretical matter.  I'd like to hear what
distinctions others on the list would draw.          My
objection wasn't to this line of argument generally -- it was
the rather odd definition of bisexuality, and to the focus on
polygamous marriages as somehow being more related to bisexuals
than to others. True, under a two-person marriage rule, a
bisexual must choose to marry either a man or a woman; but under
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