"I understand Lilly's motivations pretty well"

Could you expand on what the point of marrying an inanimate object would be, then? I read your entire post but didn't see it covered. There are no health benefits to share. No inheritance. No child custody. No privacy privileges at doctors, emergency contact rights, etc. Yet there would seem to be great negative costs associated with such counter-culturism. I would suggest this person may meet some of the criterion for social anxiety disorder, or another disorder. I, personally, do not wish to subsidize tax, health, or other benefits/discounts that generally go along with state-granted marriage licenses for people pairing up with inanimate objects. Society shoulders some of that burden because procreation is mission critical to survival; this logic does not apply to robots.

Note: I am referring specifically, and only, to the wanting to marry in a legal, official fashion part. Not the attraction. I would say this also applies to that guy who tried to legally marry his Mustang. There's something up with a human ego which needs to ego-invest (in the typical fashion we do with our mates) with an inanimate object - which has nothing to do with the attraction or sexuality, just the official marriage license part (that's the part you show to the world).

I may not get a better chance to post this: