There is a much bigger rationale to recognizing polygamous marriage than same-sex marriage. Polygamy has been around for thousands of years in lots of cultures. It is legal in much of the Muslim world. Once there is deemed to be a rationale for same-sex marriage, then polygamy becomes impossible to suppress.
The courts’ use of equal-protection reasoning provides the logical mandate for both polygamous marriage AND the prohibition of all forms of state licensing.
Marriage can now become a business agreement amongst thousands and thousands of parties, who don’t have to actually know each other. The motivation is obtain recognition and benefits provided by 3rd parties and government on the basis of marriage.
Remove Natural Law-—the basis of American jurisprudence—and you have irrational man-made up “rights”. Promoting Virtue is essential for any Virtue (Justice) System to survive. If you promote Vice and Evil laws (welfare/theft) you will get more of it and Vice will be made “normal” to those children raised in the Vice system.
There is no natural right from God to sodomize others or to treat women like dogs and in a system which teaches any children that males are superior to females.
This unequal treatment of the sexes and the irrational Marxist idea that males and females are interchangeable-—throws out Science, Truth and Right Reason......
But that is Cicero’s point, isn’t it and St. Thomas’s-—When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law.
And we all know that when you have Rule of Man (Hitler/obama) civil society will collapse and you will have a totalitarian system which controls what you are allowed to “think” and “do” and how you “educate” your little Johnny which will end up exactly like the education of the little Afghani harem boys.