Posted on 03/23/2005 8:46:11 AM PST by DBeers
PING.
Heinlein already did all the footwork for any "scholar" in this.
Read "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"
And my response to this is... is Western Civilization doomed? We face dire threats from without in the War on Terror, and assaults on our institutions from within by liberal nut cases who are obsessed with mainstream acceptance and endorsement of their sex lives. It's enough to drive a person to despair.
He's married legally to Terri Schiavo despite living as husband to another woman and fathering and raising two children with her.
Yet the legal system still says he is Terri Schiavo's wife.
How, therefore can polygamist marriage be denied given this precedent.
Basically this would be statutory sanction and approval of the free love lifestyle of a 1960's hippie commune.
Bookmarking.
What a piece of filth.
Although I haven't ever considered Rick Santorum a fount of wisdom, this is one area where he is right. Once you, as a California court now has, establish a right to marry who you choose, you do open the door to not only gay marriage, but incestuous marriage, bestiality, bigamy, polygamy, etc.
Or Islam and the tradition of up to 5 wives.
I want to marry my Playstation /sarcasm>
Defending marriage bump!
I have already been in a California incestuous marriage, having been married to my first cousin.
Well, technically it was a consanguinous marriage, but still.
Maybe the law should start treating people as individual taxpayers. That would put an end to most of these arguments.
In my opinion, no-fault divorce did this. The Schiavo case just takes it one step further. Now instead of don't ask don't tell its so what...
Polygamy goes back to the time of the Old Testament patriarchs. The polygamists have a stronger case than do the homosexuals.
Well, life is tough.
Hmmm . . . maintain the moral underpinnings of Western culture or allow a few self-absorbed perverts to "live happily" . . . oh, that's a tough choice.
"technically i think it's 4 wives"
It's four wives "on earth". If you want more, you have to keep them on boats.
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