Can two sisters get married?

In the United States, the District of Columbia and every state, except Rhode Island, have some form of codified incest prohibition. Source

US Marriage Laws: Washington

(By the way, the negative reaction that you anticipate is because of the reaction of thinking people to those troglodites that continue to insist that there is some sort of correlation between homosexuality and incest, pedopilia and bestiality. There is not.)

I was about to answer the incest thing, but saw that for some strange reason same-sex marriage was included in the description. Huh? What is the connection?

Is your question “Will gay marriage lead to legal incestuous unions?,” or is it “Is gay marriage OK in your opinion, because in my mind, homosexuality is akin to incest?”

What an odd question.

Curious, what are your thoughts on same-sex marriage, @gondwanalon?

Sisters as in biological sisters or sisters as in two women in general?

Can a sister and a brother get married because we have heterosexual marriage?

No.

But in all honesty, I don’t see why not. It might be a bit redundant, since they’re already next-of-kin, but hey.

I also don’t see why platonic friends couldn’t get married if they found the benefits of the same to be in their best interest. It’s a legal document, nothing more.

Yes, @Seek_Kolinahr it is a legal document, but a pretty entangled one. And one you can’t exit all that easily if time has entangled you more.

To the original question, No, but family members already have most of the benefits of marriage open to them.

Marriage is whatever you want it to be. If you think it’s just a piece of paper, so be it, but not everyone feels that nonchalant about it – even those without religious ties.

As someone that has a sister, the thought of being with her in that way really freaks me out, but that’s no reason to condemn it. “Because it’s gross” is hardly a sufficient reason not to let them marry. Additionally, if they can’t procreate, it’s no one else’s business.

However, in order to allow two sisters or two brothers to marry, heterosexual siblings would also have to be allowed to marry. Because of that, and the implications on potential offspring, I don’t think it should be allowed. But as mentioned, homosexuality has nothing to do with incest.

I honestly don’t care about that type of stuff. I say let people be free to love and marry whoever they want. It’s not that big of a deal.

Certainly, it is cool with me. Why not? No, two sisters could not get married , because of the laws regarding incest. Usually, (I don’t know what the state law is in Washington) blood relatives cannot get married. Even first cousins marrying is frowned upon or illegal.

Personally, I see no sense whatsoever in applying incest laws to consenting same-sex couples. Incest laws are there to prevent the risk of mutation in offspring, but a same-sex couple cannot (yet) have children that are biologically related to both of them. It’s only custom that makes us think it’s icky for a girl to marry her sister.

@janbb I don’t know if that’s a good comparison since incest creates children with health problems.

@downtide That just screams complicated. If we allow same sex siblings to marry because they can’t have kids, then the same should apply to infertile heterosexual couples as well as any couple willing to become infertile in order to marry. If not, it’ll be considered special treatment for same sex couples. Something else for Republicans to bitch about.

If they are two sisters as in Catholic nuns, they already are both married to Jesus. I think Christ got grandfathered in before polygamy was made illegal 150 year ago or so, setting up today’s arguments that marriage has traditionally been between one man and one woman for over 2,000 years. ~

What do you mean by “sisters”? Do you mean actual sisters as in siblings? Or do you mean two women who are not biologically related?

Two women who are not biologically related can leagally get married in the state that I live in (Washington).

@gondwanalon I think it’s wonderful and about time.

@Plucky Are you saying that it is “wonderful and about time” for two women who ARE siblings to get married?

@gondwanalon I am replying to your remark, “Two women who are not biologically related can leagally get married in the state that I live in (Washington).”