Gay marriage

[Chas]

Children cannot consent or make contracts.

So what you're saying is that a child cannot walk into a store and buy a shirt, a bottle of milk a movie ticket or a maccas meal?

Only problem is you're wrong. The law requires that ID be produced for buying knives - you have to be at least 16 (legally a child) - you also need to produce ID to buy/hire an MA rated movie or game or see an MA rated film in the cinema - you have to be at least 15. So in both these instances the vendor knows the age of the customer. FYI the vender is often represented by children 14 and over too - if you buy your cup of coffee from a 14 year old he's completing the contract - if a 14 year old buys one from a 14 year old, if a 15 year old buys a movie ticket from a 14 year old, etc, they're all entering into contracts with no adult intervention.

If a 17 year old fills up a car with fuel, and goes in to pay for it is the servo assistant going to siphon the fuel back out?

What about bank accounts, how are children allowed to have bank accounts?

Children enter into contracts all the time.

If a 15 year old and an 18 year old are in a relationship living together independently, are you saying that their relationship should have no legal recognition?

Union between two consenting adults is the issue here, and extending that to all adults.

See? "TWO consenting adults" - you've already discriminated against other groups just by that statement, all you've done is proved my point.

Children do not enter into contracts, their parents or guardians are responsible for them. And the 18 year-old in your example will be charged with statutory rape in most jurisdictions.

Protecting children is not discrimination. You really are a fucking idiot.