Posted on 01/21/2005 8:58:40 AM PST by UnbornChild
Friday, Jan. 21, 2005
Stephen Harper says that legalizing same-sex marriage could lead to polygamy in Canada. Do you think that this is a legitimate concern?
Yes 4990 votes (35 %)
No 9347 votes (65 %)
Total Votes: 14337
BUMP!
If it's OK for two men or two women to be married, on what basis can you discriminate against relationships with more than two people?
It's mind boggling that there are people out there who don't get this.
Sure. Bisexuals will want one of each and it they don't get them, their civil rights will be violated.
If marriage can't be limited to one man and one woman, then why limit it to two people? Why limit it to people? How about bestiality and pedophilia? Proponents of those activities will have legal grounds then.
NO. It will lead to less and less marriage period, and widespread illegitimacy. See, Scandinavia.
Some people don't want to get it and don't care.
Please vote!
I hate it when people use the bestiality marriage example because that IS over the top. I think it's a red herring because it obscures the fact that polygamy is right around the corner. The muzzies will sue if they don't get the right to four wives... it will happen here too. The leftists will say that you can't point to anything wrong with it, and if you can't bring God, morality, or religion into it, then I suppose there isn't.
OTOH, at that point I become an enemy of the whole concept of civil marriage and any tax or any other benefits that accrue to married people. It's not really fair for me to subsidize marriage in the first place, and I certainly don't want to do it for those who are trying to destroy the system. MAYBE a tax credit per dependant, but I'm not even so sure about that.
Stop posting that rubbish here insinuating that this is somehow a "rights" issue. It is not.
Homosexuals have NEVER been denied the right to get married!
In fact, homosexuals can get married anytime they want.
Easy, it's called natural law. Polygamy is a far smaller offense to nature than sodomy is; it's illogical to affirm evil as "good" at all, but it's even more illogical to affirm a greater evil as a "good" while condemning a lesser one.
If there's nothing special about heterosexual marriage, there's most assuredly nothing magical about the number "2".
Events are overtaking you, anyway. The move to legitimize "polyamory" is already underway.
Yes
5902 votes (31 %)
No
13448 votes (69 %)
how cant it? How do you distinguish 1 from the other
Moses was married to a black woman.
And let's also not pretend that there's no difference between recognizing relationship between two people, regardless of sexual orientation, and multiple partners.
Homosexual "marriage" has NEVER been recognized. Polygamy and polyandry have.
Using the logic of the Canadian court decision, I can see no reason why marriage should be restricted to "two" or to "persons".
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