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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Isn’t it ironic that with all the bickering from different pairs of people who want to consider themselves married we still have over 70% of black babies born to unwed mothers?
Homosexuals are fighting to get to the alter and blacks are running in the other direction.
IIRC from an article I posted a month ago or so, polygamy is still lawful under the Talmud, but little practiced.
Please re read that passage in the original Greek. The word used “mia” can be translated as:
a
one
at least one
first
a certain one
Wyoming shepherds and their ewes
However the bible does call homosexuality an abomination (which was my point).
Many is still more than one and David (a man after God’s own heart) had 8 wives.
There is a scriptural basis to oppose both:
In the New Testament, 1 Timothy 3:2, 12 and Titus 1:6 give “the husband of one wife” in a list of qualifications for spiritual leadership. There is some debate as to what specifically this qualification means. The phrase could literally be translated “a one-woman man.” Whether or not this phrase is referring exclusively to polygamy, in no sense can a polygamist be considered a “one-woman man.” While these qualifications are specifically for positions of spiritual leadership, they should apply equally to all Christians.
Read more: http://www.gotquestions.org/polygamy.html#ixzz3DFGkFVlX
Please re read that passage in the original Greek. The word used “mia” can be translated as:
a
one
at least one
first
a certain one
The Bible says that God’s original intention was for one man to be married to only one woman: “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife [not wives], and they will become one flesh [not fleshes]” (Genesis 2:24).
Are you a Mormon?
They will never divest themselves of it at this point. The state knows it provides too much control of the culture in creating people dependent on the state to give it up. The homosexualists want the state involved because they need a way to punish and keep punishing those they know who will never buy into ‘gay marriage.’
The most I ever see happening is certain faiths might not involve themselves in the civil side of it and just take the punishments.
Freegards
It’s essentially the same legal argument. It’s going to end the same way.
No. The gays told me so and we can trust them.
RE: David (a man after God’s own heart) had 8 wives.
EXACTLY what God tells the Kings of Israel not to do.
He never had peace in his own household, up to his dying day.
Married men still do most of the cheating——
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Uhh, who are they cheating with?
Married men still do most of the cheating——
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Uhh, who are they cheating with?
My confuser cheated on me.
I’d like to marry one of the virus that infected me a week ago. Why not in Clown Prince nobama’s Insane Amerika?
I would like to be married to 6 women at the same time.
You know 1 for each day of the week. Only 6 days in a week?
Sunday does not count. It is a day of rest....
Yeah, well, polygamy is closer to marriage than same-sex relationships - which aren’t marriage at all, as far as I’m concerned.
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