It also doesn't lead to marrying children, or animals, or inanimate objects.
Surviving the scrutiny of a co-op board is another real estate process that can sometimes lead couples to marry when they might not otherwise do so.
And why would one of the world's foremost AIDS activists sing "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" for a gay-baiting provocateur who has trivialized AIDS and speculated that same-sex marriage could lead people to marry dogs?
His stickiest slip was three years ago, when he cautioned that gay marriage could lead fathers to marry their sons to avoid inheritance tax ("Incest is there to protect us from inbreeding").
In it, the author observes that bad buildings are like bad relationships, "an example expressed through materials of the same tendency which in other domains will lead us to marry the wrong people, choose inappropriate jobs and book unsuccessful holidays: the tendency not to understand who we are and what will satisfy us".
The story of "The Little Humpbacked Horse" — in which young Ivan the Fool's adventures with wild horses, his new companion the resourceful Little Humpbacked Horse, firebirds, the silly Tsar, the scheming Gentleman of the Bedchamber, the beautiful Tsar Maiden and the Sea People lead him to marry the Tsar Maiden and become the new Tsar — is a romp.
"It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendency which in other domains will lead us to marry the wrong people, choose inappropriate jobs and book unsuccessful holidays: the tendency not to understand who we are and what will satisfy us".
He "perhaps rather too flippantly" suggested, he said, that letting gays wed could "debase" marriage and lead to men marrying their fathers to avoid estate taxes.
The worst abusers of the "slippery slope" argument claim that legalising gay marriage will lead to people marrying their pet rocks and so forth.
Jeremy Irons has backtracked over his controversial comment that legalising gay marriage might lead to fathers marrying their sons to avoid inheritance tax.
