Sir, – John Waters is absolutely right when he asks why should marriage be limited to just two people (Opinion, April 5th). His article may be a tongue-in-cheek attack on the right of two people of the same sex to choose each other as their partner, but in the end his reductio ad absurdum asks a simple question. The answer to which is one he may not like.
The question simply comes down to consent. Can more than two people, of their own free will, consent to love and honour each other until whatever time they decide that promise ends?
No one is asking that John Waters marries a man, two women or the Shamrock Rovers. Even if the entire team should get down on one knee, Mr Waters can graciously decline.
Should he accept, any one of the party surely has the right to divorce the others should whatever agreed fidelities be breached.
I can only hypothesise, but most people would rather keep their partners sexual domain curtailed. I just don’t think that the State or John Waters should pick the number. – Yours, etc,
PAUL Mc ELLIGOTT,
Carrickbrack Heath,
Sutton,
Dublin 13.