DOMA and Prop 8. Both History.

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That's the key point, as Jester also pointed out. Those two words (Consenting Adult) do an awful lot of heavy lifting in the debate.

Sorry, I misread your post. And I agree with you.

Still the reason why we use the term 'consenting ADULT' is the same reason we say polygamy is wrong.
There are enough under 18s who are emotionally and intellectually ready for marriage but we don't allow this, and there are many over 18s who aren't and we do allow this. But exactly because we don't want the government to get in between our personal business we set some sensible rules. This means that some people have bad luck, and other are allowed something they should actually not do, but we can't spend the time and money to do a deep psychological research to every couple that wants to get married.

So we take the point that if we can consider two adults as equal they are allowed to get married.
So that means gays, and over 18s are allowed. And marriage of more than two people and marriage of under 18s are not allowed.

And we should be happy it is this way....the alternative is the government telling you for example you are too emotionally unstable to marry another person.