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Polygamy Advocate: Gay Marriage Blazing Trail for Us
Newsbusters ^ | June 25, 2013 | Lauren Enk

Posted on 06/25/2013 10:46:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Looks like there is a slippery slope after all and gay marriage really could lead to polygamy. According to U.S. News and World Report, polyamory advocate Anita Wagner Illig said that gay marriage is setting the standard to make polygamy and polyamory legal.

“We polyamorists are grateful to our [LGBT] brothers and sisters for blazing the marriage equality trail,” said Illig, who is the head of polyamory advocacy group called Practical Polyamory.

Anticipating the Supreme Court’s decision on same-sex marriage this week, US New’s reporter Steven Nelson interviewed Illig to see how polyamorists and polygamists feel about the possibility of redefining marriage. Nelson reported that Illig admitted “the polyamory community has expressed little desire for legal marriage” until now, but that in light of gay marriage gaining wider acceptance, “more options seem possible in the future.”

Illig insisted that the legalization of gay marriage would set an undeniable precedent for polyamorists seeking legal “multi-partner marriage.”

“A favorable outcome for marriage equality is a favorable outcome for multi-partner marriage,” she argued, because gay marriage would then provide “precedent” for “other forms of non-traditional relationships.”

Illig, whose husband has a girlfriend, believes that the legal acceptance for polygamy would “eliminate a common challenge polyamorists face,” and would be more likely to happen should the Supreme Court rule in favor of gay marriage this week.

Despite denials from left-wingers like CNN’s Piers Morgan and MSNBC’s Luke Russert, it’s getting harder and harder for liberals to ignore reality: legalizing gay marriage will lead to legalizing polygamy. Lefty newspaper Slate’s writer Jillian Keenan openly advocated legalizing polygamy earlier this year, and Huffington Post’s Abby Huntsman admitted that legalizing gay marriage would “open the door” to polygamy “and other things.”

Not to mention, of course, MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry who asserted that “We do want to change marriage.” With gay couples and now “multi-partner” marriage on the horizon, one wonders whether marriage will even be recognizable by the time the left is done changing it.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: gaymarriage; homosexualagenda; homosexualmarriage; polyamory; polygamy; romney; romneyagenda; romneymarriage; romneypolygamy; samesexmarriage; scotus; supremecourt
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As many of us have said all along.
1 posted on 06/25/2013 10:46:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Rush spent many hours of his program over the years telling us this was going to happen. What next in the scheme of perverted sex will be on the table ... ?


2 posted on 06/25/2013 10:52:11 PM PDT by doc1019 (There is absolutely no difference between pro-choice and pro-abortion.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Justice Scalia predicted this in his dissent in Lawrence v. Texas, which struck down sodomy laws in the U.S. He said that if the Court refused to uphold state laws that are based on morality then laws against incest, adultery, homosexuality, polygamy, bestiality, pornography, etc. would crumble.
3 posted on 06/25/2013 11:02:20 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This will go on until until government starts losing money off it(as when people start “marrying” their children to avoid inheritance taxes). Then you’ll see Democrats screaming about “the sacred institution of marriage”.


4 posted on 06/25/2013 11:05:04 PM PDT by denydenydeny (Admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt one has for others.-Tocqueville)
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To: denydenydeny
What business does the government have telling me how many wives I can have?

I should be able to have as many as I can afford, a harem.

5 posted on 06/25/2013 11:13:58 PM PDT by Mogger (Independence, better fuel economy and performance with American made synthetic oil.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Next I expect to see a non-cable sitcom or drama with a polygamous main characters. All apart of the normalization process.
6 posted on 06/25/2013 11:15:13 PM PDT by RginTN
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“Big Love” and “Sister Wives” weren’t that well received on cable, were they?


7 posted on 06/25/2013 11:16:09 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Slippery slope? I would frankly consider polygamy a step up. There is at least some biological sense to the arrangement.


8 posted on 06/25/2013 11:18:27 PM PDT by CaspersGh0sts
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To: Mogger

What business does the government have telling me how many wives I can have?
I should be able to have as many as I can afford, a harem.


Do you really want multiple mother in laws or all those wives pms’ing at the same time???


9 posted on 06/25/2013 11:18:48 PM PDT by RginTN
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“Big Love” and “Sister Wives” weren’t that well received on cable, were they?


Its a slow re-education process.
Didn’t see alot of gays on tv then boom every sitcom had them in it.


10 posted on 06/25/2013 11:22:29 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’ve never seen gay marriage as a “slippery slope”, it is a complete break, it is the realization of another libertarian victory to add to the 50 year string of them.

Once we have “gay marriage” then what we are really saying is that it is all up to whatever consenting adults want, polygamy has to follow, as will all other variations.


11 posted on 06/25/2013 11:22:49 PM PDT by ansel12 (Libertarians, Gays = in all marriage, child custody, adoption, immigration or military service laws.)
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To: Mogger

Yet for what sounds so easy to you, has been rejected by Western civilization, always.


12 posted on 06/25/2013 11:34:17 PM PDT by ansel12 (Libertarians, Gays = in all marriage, child custody, adoption, immigration or military service laws.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Personally I’m looking forward to this, getting kind of tired of my old wife and would like to liven things up with a model with 20 years less mileage on it. Just can’t afford the alimony so this solves that little problem, just move the old bag to the spare bedroom, maybe service her once a month or so just for old times sake and have a ton of fun with the new one! You just have to learn to enjoy the decline, there’s a silver lining in every dark cloud!


13 posted on 06/25/2013 11:44:09 PM PDT by trapped_in_LA
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>> What business does the government have telling me how many wives I can have?

Then what business does the govt have forcing the citizens to support and service homosexual behavior lawfully defined as marriage?


14 posted on 06/25/2013 11:54:52 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: RginTN
Do you really want multiple mother in laws or all those wives pms’ing at the same time???

You keep them away from one another.

15 posted on 06/26/2013 12:10:19 AM PDT by Mogger (Independence, better fuel economy and performance with American made synthetic oil.)
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To: Mogger

Not sure why you replied to me but polygamy has horrific consequences for society; it would literally mean the end of western civilization


16 posted on 06/26/2013 12:11:24 AM PDT by denydenydeny (Admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt one has for others.-Tocqueville)
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To: Gene Eric
Then what business does the govt have forcing the citizens to support and service homosexual behavior lawfully defined as marriage?

Exactly!

Why is government in the marriage business at all, except for the recording of the events?

17 posted on 06/26/2013 12:12:51 AM PDT by Mogger (Independence, better fuel economy and performance with American made synthetic oil.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Damn Straight!!!

Gay Marriage is leading the way for me to have several “Partners” and I couldn’t be happier.....

Chicka’s, I think is muh thing and they luvz me.

Bring on the “Monogamy ain’t no thing” . . . thing...


18 posted on 06/26/2013 12:19:47 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: denydenydeny
Not sure why you replied to me but polygamy has horrific consequences for society; it would literally mean the end of western civilization

One of the drawbacks of polygamy is that it does not build the nuclear family (one man, one woman, and their children) as a political unit.

19 posted on 06/26/2013 12:25:56 AM PDT by thecodont
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To: ansel12
Once we have “gay marriage” then what we are really saying is that it is all up to whatever consenting adults want, polygamy has to follow, as will all other variations.

Yes, because we have a nation run by lawyers. If we legalize all sorts of "marriage," the money from divorce and probate cases is going to be ASTRONOMICAL.

This drive for new definitions of "marriage" started picking up bigtime when stats showed conclusively that heterosexual couples were living together more and more without benefit of marriage. Not a good thing for divorce lawyers.

Gay couples and polygamists literally begging to be married would provide a bonanza for the legal industry. As they say, follow the money.

20 posted on 06/26/2013 12:44:37 AM PDT by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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