Should Adam and Steve / Eve and Lilith be allowed to marry?
Suppose that we have four young single people, some of whom are desperately in love with one another: Adam, Eve, Steve, and Lilith. Like many young people in love, they want to get married and have a family. Can they? In our present society, this depends a lot on just which of them we are talking about. For example, Adam, Eve, and Steve cannot all marry each other together; only couples are allowed to marry. Similarly, Eve cannot marry Adam and then also marry Steve without first ending the marriage to Adam; each partner of the married couple is allowed to be married only to the other partner of the couple. One of the most controversial features of the scenario is that Adam cannot marry Steve, and Eve cannot marry Lilith: in our present society only women are allowed to marry men, and vice versa; only heterosexual couples are presently allowed to marry. For many liberal gay rights advocates, the prohibition on homosexual marriage is one of predominant signs of our society’s homophobia,
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