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CANADIAN FREEP: Will gay marriage lead to polygamy?
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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

GLOBE AND MAIL


TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: canada; canuckistan; gay; homosexuality; marriage; polygamy
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1 posted on 01/21/2005 8:58:40 AM PST by UnbornChild
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To: UnbornChild

BUMP!


2 posted on 01/21/2005 9:07:21 AM PST by UnbornChild
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To: UnbornChild
That this is even a question open to debate is amazing. Of course homosexual marriage will lead to the normalization of polygamy. Once you've removed the moral boundary that defines marriage, you can't replace the boundary at some other arbitrary point.

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.

3 posted on 01/21/2005 9:08:00 AM PST by Another-MA-Conservative
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To: UnbornChild
Its a done deal. The Muslims will ask for their 3 wives and Canada will roll over. IMO, it is an overstretch to say it would lead to bestiality marriages.
4 posted on 01/21/2005 9:11:15 AM PST by bahblahbah
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To: UnbornChild

Sure. Bisexuals will want one of each and it they don't get them, their civil rights will be violated.


5 posted on 01/21/2005 9:13:07 AM PST by Melinda in TN
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To: UnbornChild

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.


6 posted on 01/21/2005 9:22:52 AM PST by SSgtRast (Doing my best to tick off the secular left.)
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To: UnbornChild

NO. It will lead to less and less marriage period, and widespread illegitimacy. See, Scandinavia.


7 posted on 01/21/2005 9:24:48 AM PST by mikeus_maximus
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To: Another-MA-Conservative

Some people don't want to get it and don't care.

Please vote!


8 posted on 01/21/2005 9:27:01 AM PST by UnbornChild
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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.


9 posted on 01/21/2005 9:28:22 AM PST by johnb838 (Oldthinkers unbellyfeel Amsoc)
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To: mdhunter
And I am having trouble following your logic sir.

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.

11 posted on 01/21/2005 9:46:01 AM PST by expatguy (http://laotze.blogspot.com/)
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To: mdhunter
In fact, I fail completely to see the mechanism for how such a thing necessarily follows from the first.

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.

12 posted on 01/21/2005 10:00:03 AM PST by Campion
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To: UnbornChild

Yes
5902 votes (31 %)

No
13448 votes (69 %)


13 posted on 01/21/2005 10:40:04 AM PST by jimt
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how cant it? How do you distinguish 1 from the other


14 posted on 01/21/2005 10:41:10 AM PST by KCDOUG
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To: UnbornChild
Polygamy has far better reasons for being (re)legalized then gay marriage.
16 posted on 01/21/2005 10:44:59 AM PST by Durus
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Marriage used to be defined as between a man and a woman of the same race only. That was the moral standard.

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".

17 posted on 01/21/2005 10:46:44 AM PST by jimt
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To: mdhunter
Reasons to re-legalize polygamy?

1. Polygamy has been an accepted practice in many cultures for centuries.

2. It was legal in our country for almost 100 years.

3. The laws forbidding polygamy were based on religous persecution of mormans.

4. There is no federal constitutional authority for passing laws concerning marriage.
20 posted on 01/21/2005 11:24:08 AM PST by Durus
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