Interspecies Marriage
The Opine Editorials blog links to this article by Stephen Bertman in the Futurist. Bertman writes:
A radical redefinition of marriage is now under way that promises to transform its meaning for all future time . . .
Though the notion of a companionate union between a human being and an animal of different species may seem sacrilegious, a close reading of Genesis 2:18-25 reveals that, before God . . . experimented by creating a series of other living beings that proved unsatisfactory and unequal to the task. It was only then that God created woman.
To propose the possibility of interspecies marriage is not to demean the desire of human couples, whether heterosexual or homosexual, to marry. Rather, it is meant to suggest that the concept of marriage as a socially and spiritually sanctioned partnership need not be restricted to humans alone if the partners to the arrangement are bound by a clear sense of loving and lifelong commitment . . .
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Let me get this straight. It’s O.K. for a man and a cow to get married if they ” are bound by a
clear sense of loving and lifelong commitment”?
Perhaps Mr. Bertman would explain just how to do this.