gay marriage does not lead to bestiality or pedophilia marriages

For one thing, sexual abuse of children HARMS them, there is not evidence that gay marriage harms anyone. The same goes for bestiality. If an animal cannot consent, it becomes "rape". Homosexuals were looked down upon because people thought it was gross and they had religious biases against it.Anyone of any age of any gender of any sexual preference can be sexually abused or raped, and regardless of the circumstances, rape if often traumatizing. You said that homosexuals were looked down upon because people thought they were gross and unaccepted by the peoples' religions. Pedophiles and bestials(?) are also looked down upon because they're gross in most eyes. Going back, interracial couples were gross in some eyes, but it all changed. You asked:1) Should we ban interracial marriages since at the time people were making the argument that interracial marriage will lead to gay marriage?No, they are already legal. The point was that times change and if people recognize minorities gaining equality, they will be more prone to fight for their equality.2) Better yet, should we ban heterosexual marriages because it made gay and interracial couples' eyes open to the possibility of marriage? Heterosexual marriages were once seen as the only acceptable marriage, it is the rudimentary marriage and is a binding under God's eyes if religious. There would be no reason to ban any type of marriage because they open up others' eyes for equality. To say we should ban this is to say we should ban the abacus because it opened the eyes of others for innovation for the modern-day calculator. Yes, some prepubescents won't be as mature and some will. There is no concrete age in which everyone matures.If one were to marry a 5-year-old, how would the 5-year-old have any idea what he or she was signing at the courthouse? How would that child fit into the "age of consent" definition? Could a child be awarded property in a divorce? Could a 5-year-old be granted custody of a 17-year-old from a previous marriage? Like I showed earlier in my link, majority of states require parental consent as well as the minor's (in this case "child's"). This being said, there would be no legal way that a 5-year-old child would ever be able to marry an adult without parental consent (which I highly doubt they will get). Age of consent is defined as the age at which a person's, typically a girl's, consent to sexual intercourse is valid in law. I know no other way to defend my stance on that question than to say that children can make their own decisions when they want something, whether it be a new toy or what they want for lunch. Typically, children do not know about sex, so with something so foreign to them, they would probably deny the invitation or repeat the question to their parents or another adult to clarify the meaning. Also, children learn very early not to talk to strangers and the rights and wrongs of these situations.Going onto the marriage, the child, if married, should be able to be awarded property if divorced. If the adult consents to the marriage, they are aware of what a divorce will mean, and in the case of fighting a child for assets, I'm sure the parents would represent the child. When it comes to having custody over a child of their spouse, because the child is not their own, I do not believe they have the right to fight for custody. Custody is a matter of the parents of the child, in most cases. For bestiality...To defend it as best I can, people are marrying inanimate objects (http://www.ranker.com...). Obviously inanimate objects have no ability to consent to anything at all, but the marriages are still identified in their state. With this and gay marriage being legal, it could encourage people/animal marriages. It's better to marry something conscious than something inanimate, no?I suppose I should ask some questions:1) Looking throughout history, how one thing has led to a similar thing, how can we ignore that one type of marriage will lead to another?2) Does the disgust of the majority justify the prohibition of marriages between loving partners regardless of age, gender, or in this case specie? 3) Why did you suggest that rape and sexual abuse only harm children but not those who are adults, sometimes adults who have consented their marriage? Is the rape and sexual abuse more acceptable than the rape and sexual abuse of a child? If no, why ignore this? If yes, how? 4) Going back to my rebuttal, should we ban the origin of all things innovated once not accepted by society? (By this, I mean: Some people don't like clowns (sorry for the bad example). Does this mean that we should ban clowns or should have banned the original clowns because people would grow to fear/hate them?)In conclusion,Gay marriage will lead to pedophilia and bestiality (marriages) because people who were looked down upon and treated poorly have risen from the dark, which in turn will cause more to do the same. We can look at this cause/effect though history. America wrote its Declaration of Independence and France followed suit to do the same. We can see this if we look at revolts in history and how some revolts led to the rising of other revolts nearby or continents away.