Same-Sex marriage should be allowed in the United States.

Okay, I would like to clarify a few things and expand on some of my positions as well as provide my closing statements. The reason the genetic argument against incest fails is: By the logic of the genetic argument against incest, two regular heterosexual people with Tay-Sachs Disease should not be recognized as married, since they also will have genetic problems for their future children. Also by the logic of the genetic argument, a 50 year old father who wants to marry his 18 year old daughter and shows proof of infertility should be considered married stats since they will never have children. Furthermore, by the logic of the genetic argument, gay incest should be recognized as marriage. A 50 year old father who wants to marry his 18 year old son should be recognized as marriage, since there is no genetic problems with their children. Therefore, the genetic argument against incest is not a valid one. I would like to also address the rape/child abuse argument against incest marriages. Some may argue that since in incest couples rape and child abuse are common, we should not recognize incest couples to be legally married. The logic of this argument is greatly flawed. Firstly, Just because in one spectrum of sexuality rape/child abuse is common is NOT grounds to ban ALL marriages of that spectrum of sexuality. In the regular world rape and child abuse have the following statistics: Every two minutes, somewhere in America, someone is sexually assaulted. One in six American women are victims of sexual assault, and one in 33 men. In 2005-2006, there were an average annual 232,010 victims of rape, attempted rape or sexual assault. About 44% of rape victims are under age 18, and 80% are under age 30 Also, rape/child abuse is quite common in the homosexual world as well as the heterosexual world. Priests rape alter boys (child abuse) Men rape other men in jail(rape) is that grounds to ban all marriages of that orientation? Of course not, Clearly, Just because in one orientation rape/child abuse is higher is not grounds to ban all marriages of that orientation. Therefore, the rape/child abuse argument against incest marriage is not valid. Therefore, My question still stands: If Homosexual marriages should be federally mandated and forced on the states to accept, why shouldn't incest marriages? Solution/Conclusion: Here is my solution to this whole problem in two words: Popular sovereignty. The legal subsidization of a marriage comes from the will of the people of each state. Legal marriage stats is not a fundamental right. The right to life is a fundamental right, freedom is a fundamental right. The right of other people to accept you as "married" is not a fundamental right. I don't have the right to go to someone else and force them to accept the fact that I'm married, regardless of weather or not I consider myself married. If they want to accept that I am married, that's fine. But if they don't want to consider me married, I have no right to force them to accept that. Heterosexual marriage is legally subsidized because the people of each state voted to subsidize it. If the people of a state vote not to subsidize Gay and Incest marriages, they have the right to do so as well. And if that is the case, incest couples and Gay couples have no right going to the people and forcing them to subsidize their marriage if the people of that state don't want to. In conclusion, when it comes to subsidizing marriage, we should use popular sovereignty. Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org... http://en.wikipedia.org...