Posted on 10/30/2012 5:21:54 PM PDT by ReformationFan
They used to call them “swingers.” Not anymore. These days, like most “alternative lifestyle” groups, they’ve adopted a new, more clinical-sounding description – polyamorist – and incorporated it into the names of a small but growing number of advocacy and social networking organizations.
As the battle over the true definition of marriage heats up nationwide, they want a place on the front line.
Polyamorists now want a seat at the table of "equality" and "tolerance."
“Polyamorist” means “lover of many,” and it’s exactly what it sounds like. Polyamorists maintain more than one sexual relationship at a time, with the full consent and knowledge of all partners. Some are married to one partner but maintain a rotating stable of lovers. Others join together in more lasting unions between multiple partners – for example, a threesome or foursome (which they call ‘triads’ and ‘quads,’) wherein all parties enjoy sexual relations in various combinations – heterosexual, homosexual or both.
In the midst of Minnesota’s raging debate over gay ‘marriage,’ the Minneapolis-area City Pages recently featured two articles highlighting the polyamorist “lifestyle,” in which they interviewed some of its practitioners.
One such interview was with a mother of two young children, Julia Janousek. Julia, who has been married for 12 years to her husband, Jim, told the City Pages they decided to “open [their] marriage up” three years ago. She quickly met another man, Justin, and became sexually involved with him, a relationship that continues to this day.
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Indeed. The only thing I’m looking forward to about it is giving the same-sex “marriage” advocates a taste of their own medicine and start accusing them of “polyphobia” and “bigotry” for opposing it.
And polygamy has a religious and social history for thousands of years. And there were laws on everything from inheritance to moral treatises on the treatment of women in these relationships.
There was also an excellent analysis, I think by Dennis Prager, on how monogamy for everyone led to the general civilizing of the world. When even the rich guys have just one wife, every man has a chance at one. When the rich men have multiple women, multiple men at the bottom go without. You get more violence and crime as a result.
And non-Muslim Africans and Christian / Mormons.
How consenting adults choose to order their lives is no concern of the State. None.
Here’s my question for that particular argument: isn’t asking the government to give its stamp of approval on their sexual lifestyles and arrangements a form of making it a concern of the state?
It is indeed. The best response to those people is to reply that it is not the proper role of government to give any sort of approval at all.
Thing is, the leaders in the sexual anarchy/homosexualist/polyamorist/etc. movement for government recognition desperately WANT the government to give approval so they can use the state to punish those who disagree or disapprove. That is most definitely NOT a “live and let live” kind of ideology or lifestyle.
Which is exactly why conservatives have to get government out of the business of defining “marriage” at all. The only way to win is not to play at all.
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