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Same-sex marriage threatens real marriage
Manchester Union Leader ^ | February 22, 2004 | Bernadette Malone

Posted on 02/22/2004 6:54:58 AM PST by billorites

ONE QUESTION for the Rev. Gene Robinson, the nation’s first openly gay Episcopal priest (now bishop) who cautions those of us opposed to same-sex marriage: “Don’t waste your time and energy defending marriage from something that doesn’t threaten it.” Doesn’t polygamy threaten marriage?

Would the Rev. Robinson rise to defend polygamy, and perform wedding ceremonies for a man and two women, or a woman and two men (polyandry)? Because if same-sex marriage doesn’t threaten real marriage, why should polygamy? There’s not a dime’s worth of difference between the two institutions when you study them.

This comparison is not intended to be degrading or insulting; it’s not likening same-sex marriage to bestiality or incest or any other perversions that harm children and animals. Both same-sex marriage and polygamy are voluntary arrangements by consenting adults; why should we care what people do behind closed doors?

And if marriage need not be limited to one man and one woman — as Robinson is saying — why need it be limited to couples only? What’s so sacred about the number 2?

It seems a bit arbitrary to allow one man to marry another man, but not to marry two women. Why should the government restrict his choice, provided his partners are willing? Would the Rev. Robinson concede that letting groups of three, four or more marry would water down the meaning of marriage, which elevates and sanctifies the precise biological recipe for creating children?

Many homosexuals don’t take the polygamy analogy seriously, or they become easily offended when the comparison is made. But there are many sound reasons to consider legalizing polygamy, advocates of same-sex marriage must admit.

Just like people feel that they are born homosexual, which justifies their right to marry same-sex lovers, people also are born with the proclivity to have multiple sex partners. For many people, monogamy does not feel like their natural, biological state.

Animals, for the most part, are not monogamous. So should people who are born with a strong urge to mate with more than one woman be denied their constitutional right to follow their urge? Why should a man be thwarted by the government if he can find two (or more) women to go along with him?

Proponents of same-sex marriage claim it will have a stabilizing effect on homosexual relationships. Don’t we want to encourage marriage and lifelong commitment, they ask?

Similarly, marrying more than one woman might be a stabilizing, civilizing influence on natural-born philanderers. They may be less inclined to pursue mistresses and patronize prostitutes if they have legally sanctioned variety at home. They may become less inclined to take advantage of no-fault divorce laws to abandon their wives for other women (opting instead to bring them into the household).

And perhaps polygamy will even cut down on pornography, once threesomes are no longer relegated to the world of naughty fantasy, but are a staple of routine married life.

Polygamy, like homosexuality, has long and storied roots in antiquity. In the Bible, Abraham kept the concubine Hagar alongside his wife Sarah, and had sons with both. Hagar’s descendants are modern day Muslims, who are permitted by the Koran to have up to four wives, provided they are all treated equally.

Why are Muslims denied this Allah-given right by state laws? Why were the Mormons — a perfectly lovely group of Christians — slaughtered and persecuted for practicing the ancient institution of polygamy? Mormon men took multiple wives to protect them spiritually; but even modern-day economics shows that married women fare better than unmarried women. Why not allow men to “look out” for more than one woman at a time?

Considering same-sex marriage is like trying to walk on top of a chain-link fence: you’ll fall off within minutes, and your only decision is which side of the fence to fall on: The side that favors keeping marriage between one man and one woman, the formula for baby-making and dual-gender parenting, or the side that favors letting any combination of men and women call themselves a marriage?

But one can’t walk along the top of the fence indefinitely. There’s a 50 percent chance of falling onto the side that favors any collection of people as a marriage, and that’s why the Rev. Gene Robinson is wrong. In opposing gay marriage, we are defending marriage from something that does indeed threaten it.

Bernadette Malone is the former editorial page editor of The Union Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: calpowercrisis; civilunion; counterfeitmarriage; familyvsvilliage; feminazisrunwild; fraudmarriage; gaymirage; genderneutralagenda; homosexualagenda; ittakesavillage; lawlessness; leftdestroyssociety; leftsagenda; marriage; romans1; samesexmarriage; thelefthatesfamily
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To: Peach
See link at post #215.

Seems to be related!
221 posted on 02/22/2004 3:10:05 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I have some software I haven't tried

LOL!!! I'm walking away now. Let me know if you get to try it.

222 posted on 02/22/2004 3:10:20 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma (Pray for America and Israel)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Before I go...is that the sw that that computer guy (NOT Jeff Levy, but the new one) was talking about on KFI a couple weeks ago?
223 posted on 02/22/2004 3:11:44 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma (Pray for America and Israel)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I was tempted to send an email when I got it but decided I didn't want this person to have my email address. Glad I showed some restraint.

That freepmail was actually one of the pulled posts. That address was on the open forum for a while. Most of the freepmails I received from this person was copies of pulled posts.

224 posted on 02/22/2004 3:12:36 PM PST by farmfriend ( Isaiah 55:10,11)
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To: Brad's Gramma
No Idea, KFI is where on the radio dial?

1070?
225 posted on 02/22/2004 3:13:49 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
640
226 posted on 02/22/2004 3:15:36 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma (Pray for America and Israel)
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To: georgette
You ain't worth the time.
227 posted on 02/22/2004 3:19:16 PM PST by sauropod (I'm Happy, You're Happy, We're ALL Happy! I'm happier than a pig in excrement. Can't you just tell?)
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To: Brad's Gramma; onyx; farmfriend; Peach
Never listen !

Borrowed this from another thread:


Woman Stressed Out

Perhaps georgette???

228 posted on 02/22/2004 3:19:54 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
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To: farmfriend
Kyoto is now a sex toy. Or haven't you heard? ;-)
229 posted on 02/22/2004 3:20:36 PM PST by sauropod (I'm Happy, You're Happy, We're ALL Happy! I'm happier than a pig in excrement. Can't you just tell?)
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To: sauropod; MizSterious
See above Photo!
230 posted on 02/22/2004 3:21:23 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Looks like a man.
231 posted on 02/22/2004 3:21:23 PM PST by farmfriend ( Isaiah 55:10,11)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Too pretty, even WITH that cute little smile.

Nope...Georgettie is probably...fat, short, bad teeth, hair? Well the hair just isn't working today....

Sigh.
232 posted on 02/22/2004 3:21:46 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma (Pray for America and Israel)
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To: sauropod
Kyoto is now a sex toy. Or haven't you heard? ;-)

Guess I missed that one. Thought I new them all.

233 posted on 02/22/2004 3:22:08 PM PST by farmfriend ( Isaiah 55:10,11)
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To: billorites
the Rev. Gene Robinson, the nation’s first openly gay Episcopal priest (now bishop)

Pagan Deceiver who will be judged the same like those that continue to pervert and twist the word of god to their own liking.......
234 posted on 02/22/2004 3:24:50 PM PST by repub32
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To: georgette
Amazing. The tin lezzies are out tonight. I guess they have nothing better to do until the "We Want Nader" rallies start again, giving them an excuse to not shave their face, legs and pits again.
235 posted on 02/22/2004 3:25:16 PM PST by Beck_isright ("I did not have sexual relations with that woman" - (Fill in name of Democrat here))
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
My guess? Probably looks more like Janet Reno on election day 2000. LOL!
236 posted on 02/22/2004 3:27:36 PM PST by MizSterious (First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Those trolls are ugly little people who obviously think the radical gay agenda to sexualize our children is okay.

They are as low as pedophiles themselves for promoting such an agenda and we will NOT let them convince us that their agenda is innocent. Because it's the most evil agenda to hit our country in a long time.
237 posted on 02/22/2004 3:28:56 PM PST by Peach (The Clintons have pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: farmfriend
Oh baby! Use your CO2 credits on me!
238 posted on 02/22/2004 3:29:00 PM PST by sauropod (I'm Happy, You're Happy, We're ALL Happy! I'm happier than a pig in excrement. Can't you just tell?)
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To: Peach
And there's no telling how many of them are pedophiles.
239 posted on 02/22/2004 3:30:27 PM PST by MizSterious (First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers.)
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To: Peach; All
Got to go!
240 posted on 02/22/2004 3:31:03 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
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