David Gibbs against robot love

March 10 2009, 6:41pm

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"Maybe people will want to marry their pets or robots." At an anti-gay marriage rally Tuesday in Raleigh, North Carolina, David Gibbs III, the Christian fundamentalist lawyer who fought to keep brain-damaged Terry Schiavo on life support in 2005, publicly expressed his deep-seated fear of machine love. From the News & Observer: (Gibbs) told rally participants gay marriage would "open the door to unusual marriage in North Carolina.

"Why not polygamy, or three or four spouses?" Gibbs asked. "Maybe people will want to marry their pets or robots." "Marriage rally draws 1,000"

Previously:Interview with author of Love & Sex With Robots - Boing Boing Yay, robot sex! Ahem. Ethics of machinophilia considered. - Boing ... Man loves sex with cars - Boing Boing