Posted on 03/22/2006 8:01:47 PM PST by neverdem
WASHINGTON — And now, polygamy.
With the sweetly titled HBO series “Big Love,” polygamy comes out of the closet. Under the headline “Polygamists, Unite!” Newsweek informs us of “polygamy activists emerging in the wake of the gay-marriage movement.” Says one evangelical Christian big lover: “Polygamy rights is the next civil-rights battle.”
Polygamy used to be stereotyped as the province of secretive Mormons, primitive Africans and profligate Arabs. With “Big Love” it moves to suburbia as a mere alternative lifestyle.
As Newsweek notes, these stirrings for the mainstreaming of polygamy (or, more accurately, polyamory) have their roots in the increasing legitimization of gay marriage. In an essay 10 years ago, I pointed out that it is utterly logical for polygamy rights to follow gay rights. After all, if traditional marriage is defined as the union of (1) two persons of (2) opposite gender, and if, as gay marriage advocates insist, the gender requirement is nothing but prejudice, exclusion and an arbitrary denial of one’s autonomous choices in love, then the first requirement — the number restriction (two and only two) — is a similarly arbitrary, discriminatory and indefensible denial of individual choice.
This line of argument makes gay activists furious. I can understand why they do not want to be in the same room as polygamists. But I’m not the one who put them there. Their argument does.
Blogger and author Andrew Sullivan, who had the courage to advocate gay marriage at a time when it was considered pretty crazy, has called this the “polygamy diversion,” arguing that homosexuality and polygamy are categorically different because polygamy is a mere “activity” while homosexuality is an intrinsic state that “occupies a deeper level of human consciousness.”
But this distinction between higher and lower orders of love is precisely what gay rights activists so...
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Polyamory also includes women with multiple male partners. So not only do you have to deal with inlaws through multiple wives, but also your wives' multiple boyfriends.
Family trees will look like grapevines in a short time.
I know several polyamory people. They are not mentally oe emotionally stable.
Pinz
>>Its definitely worse for society though.
Not to mention the costs for Welfare, insurance, and schools...
The only thing that the Sodomites procreate through anal sex are.........lawyers.
LOL!
What do you call a firm full of sky diving lawyers?
Skeet!
I am sitting here with a friend trying to figure out how the homosexuals came up with the word GAY to describle themselves. I tried to look it up and got no answers. So can someone please tell us why they call themselves GAY. I'm at a loss here because any of the gay people I know are not gay ( as meaning happy, joyful) they are usally moaning and groaning over relationships. Would someone explain it to me as I must be ignorant here because I truly don't know.
You assume marital fidelity. There are plenty of guys out there with 6 women. Some married them, sequentially. Some never bothered to marry them.
The truth is, we have polygamy right now. We just call it divorce and remarriage.
What's the difference between dealing with lawyers and gay sex?
Nothing.
There was a recent story posted, where a guy was forced to marry a goat in Africa.
With the Supreme Court using foreign precedents, it will soon be here.
Why was the man forced to marry the goat? I missed that one.
He was caught buggerin' the goat.
Where is PETA when ya need em?
That's bad, but good if you know what I mean...
(Refraining from taking over the thread with lawyer jokes... If there's already a thread, somebody ping me :-)
This is one of those very rare occasions when I'm glad that some people out there are just crazy enough to take the perversion up a notch.
>>I am sitting here with a friend trying to figure out how
>>the homosexuals came up with the word GAY to describle
>>themselves.
They couldn't spell homsaxuale.
To the Spelling cop: Spelling error intentional, sir.
Do we have an acronym for a drum roll?
Nope, I think it means just the opposite. Liberals have been able to advance their agenda but are now overreaching. They're about to drain all of the "tolerance" out of the American people.
OH, I love the irony of how this is biting the gays in the ass!! If they can take a d*ck, they should be able to take this as the natural result of their actions!
roflllllllllll But truly I dont know and all the gay people I have ever known were not happy at all.They were always b.tching and moaning over their lovers, males or females. They sure weren't happy or gay.
So they made him marry the goat. I hope she was female at least. Tell me it wasn't a male goat please.
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