Posted on 10/30/2012 5:21:54 PM PDT by ReformationFan
Indeed. The only thing I’m looking forward to about it is giving the same-sex “marriage” advocates a taste of their own medicine and start accusing them of “polyphobia” and “bigotry” for opposing it.
And polygamy has a religious and social history for thousands of years. And there were laws on everything from inheritance to moral treatises on the treatment of women in these relationships.
There was also an excellent analysis, I think by Dennis Prager, on how monogamy for everyone led to the general civilizing of the world. When even the rich guys have just one wife, every man has a chance at one. When the rich men have multiple women, multiple men at the bottom go without. You get more violence and crime as a result.
And non-Muslim Africans and Christian / Mormons.
How consenting adults choose to order their lives is no concern of the State. None.
Here’s my question for that particular argument: isn’t asking the government to give its stamp of approval on their sexual lifestyles and arrangements a form of making it a concern of the state?
It is indeed. The best response to those people is to reply that it is not the proper role of government to give any sort of approval at all.
Thing is, the leaders in the sexual anarchy/homosexualist/polyamorist/etc. movement for government recognition desperately WANT the government to give approval so they can use the state to punish those who disagree or disapprove. That is most definitely NOT a “live and let live” kind of ideology or lifestyle.
Which is exactly why conservatives have to get government out of the business of defining “marriage” at all. The only way to win is not to play at all.
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