Posted on 09/13/2014 4:51:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
That question applies in the US — and possibly in some surprising places elsewhere. Let’s start in the US, where the march of court opinion has moved steadily over the last decade from the inherent right to sexual privacy and choice in Lawrence v Texas to the mandate for government recognition of partnership choices in the emergence of same-sex marriage as an equal-treatment issue. During the latter period of that arc, opponents of SSM warned that the same arguments deployed in that effort could be made to force recognition of polygamist relationships as marriages too, which SSM advocates hotly denied. Now that the courts have made a near-sweep on same-sex marriage, Sally Kohn wonders why polygamy should be any different:
Back in the early days of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender movement’s push for marriage equality, this slippery slope to polygamy was pragmatically taboo. After all, arguments about gay marriage leading to polygamy were lobbed almost entirely with the purpose of derailing the gay rights agenda. And there was also something inherently offensive about making the connection, along the same lines of suggesting that gay marriage would lead to people marrying goats. …
[P]olygamy, as it generally is practiced in the United States, is a predominantly heterosexual enterprise—like heterosexuality (or the male ideal of heterosexuality) on steroids. After all, while the percentage of married women who have affairs has risen in recent decades, married men still do most of the cheating. Conservatives concerned about the high rate of divorce in America should stop blaming gay marriage but instead heterosexual infidelity—a prime culprit in 55 percent of divorces.
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I wouldn’t be suprise
Whaaa, I demand to legally marry my pet canary and carry him on my insurance.
Once in Sodom!... Where does it stop?..
Sure, it’s anything you want it to be. I’m going to smear my thighs with bacon grease, and I’ll say that’s marriage, too.
No doubt about it. Anything Judeo-Christian is up for grabs.
I’ll bet the Left has people going through the Bible as we speak making a list of what’s up next.
I can’t believe bestiality hasn’t been praised on our K-12th grade campuses yet. Or am I the last to hear of it?
It won’t be long before Whoopi Goldberg gets her wish — and sex with 13 years olds will no longer be taboo.
The Bible does not call polygamy an abomination. Nor is the punishment for polygamy being stoned to death. In fact, there are conditions described in the Bible where polygamy is required by law.
The is far more of a scriptural basis for being opposed to homosexuality than polygamy.
Because we have allowed government to define “marriage” for its own purposes (such as taxation and regulation of estates), we have allowed government to define marriage as a social institution. That was fine as long as people in control of government were generally supportive of God’s original definition of marriage. However we have entered a time when a growing number of people in control of government want to redefine marriage for their own purposes, which in part is contrary to God’s definition.
Marriage is now far more a matter of politics and ideology than of private religious beliefs.
Therefore, for the sake of marriage as God defines it, it is time to remove from government the power to define who is married and who is not. Then gays could form whatever relationships they please but they could not force those who disagree to be enablers for those relationships. And we would not have schools that must teach that homosexual “marriages” are just as legitimate as heterosexual ones. Nor would we have owners of wedding photography services being threatened with arrest and being convicted of a crime for merely declining to artfully photograph a “marriage” they find morally repugnant.
Polygamy has existed historically for millenia.
“Homosexual marriage” has never existed anywhere at any time. Doesn’t exist. Will never exist, pass all the laws you want.
Now the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God has created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth (1 Timothy 4:1-3).
I’m pretty sure it was Judge Scalia who said that if homo marriage flys, there is literally nothing stopping (legally speaking) the ‘right’ to marry anone or anything else.
We see it’s beginning to pan out as he warned.
Actually, polygamy is more Biblical than whatever that homo thing is they do.
RE: The Bible does not call polygamy an abomination.
The Bible DOES frown upon multiple wives, although this passage is for Kings who will rule over Israel, it is not hard to extend it towards the people themselves.
15 “You may indeed set a king over you whom the Lord your God will choose. One from among your brothers you shall set as king over you. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother. 16 Only he must not acquire many horses for himself or cause the people to return to Egypt in order to acquire many horses, since the Lord has said to you, ‘You shall never return that way again.’ 17 And he shall not acquire many wives for himself, lest his heart turn away, nor shall he acquire for himself excessive silver and gold.”
(Deuteronomy 17:15-17)
To be an elder in the Church according to the Apostle Paul in the book of Titus:
If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
Well, there was Sodom and its sister City of Gomorrah . . . for a brief time.
But no scriptural evidence that they called it marriage.
Polygamy is good compared to homosexual “marriage”. The only thing down from here is pedophilia.
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