Alito: Why Not Let 4 Lawyers Marry Each Other?
Justice Samuel Alito compared gay marriage to polygamy in his questioning of attorney Mary Bonauto.
“Would there be any ground for denying them a license?” Alito asked.
“Let’s say they’re all consenting adults, highly educated. They’re all lawyers,” he said…
Alito: Well, what if there’s no — these are 4 people, 2 men and 2 women, it’s not–it’s not the sort of polygamous relationship, polygamous marriages that existed in other societies and still exist in some societies today. And let’s say they’re all consenting adults, highly educated. They’re all lawyers. What would be the ground under–under the logic of the decision you would like us to hand down in this case? What would be the logic of denying them the same right?
Bonauto: Number one, I assume the States would rush in and say that when you’re talking about multiple people joining into a relationship, that that is not the same thing that we’ve had in marriage, which is on the mutual support and consent of two people. Setting that aside, even assuming it is within the fundamental right –
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3 responses to Alito: Why Not Let 4 Lawyers Marry Each Other?
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Suzanne McFly April 29th, 2015 at 16:40
For the sake of frogs, when will they quit trying to out-stupid one another.
Obewon April 29th, 2015 at 21:29
Exactly! At least he could have tried to be honest about his feelings just once…
Alito: why not let 4 lawyers fellatiate each other?
Justices Thomas & Scalia in unison: “Amen brother!”
E.A. Blair May 1st, 2015 at 19:09
Lawyers don’t need to get married. They reproduce asexually through binary fission, just like any other bacterium.