For two thousand years marriage has been between a man and a woman. That is OUR culture. Let’s keep our culture. If you want to live in Pago Pago in a grass hut, go ahead but keep our culture as it is. It has a great set of values when people actually follow them. If you want to experiment with other exotic lifestyles do so but leave the country first.
You don’t have children, do you?
I don’t want to impose my cultural and religious beliefs on anyone else.
I don’t want to restrict government recognition of civil unions due to a narrowminded prudish and self centered view of what I or anyone else thinks should go on behind closed doors.
Religious viewpoints are the source of many of the worst wars in history. War takes its toll on men, women, and children. It is often inflamed by emotions and ignorance.
The USA was motivated to be settled by Europeans in part
for religious and cultural tolerance. In doing so
they decimated the extant indigenous culture, which
included polygamy.
Where is your religious tolerance??
Where is your cultural tolerance??
Do you favor ethnic cleansing of populations who hold
beliefs differing from yours?? (It certainly sounds
that way.)
There are plenty of new immigrants and old here now
as well as those in lifestyles who may differ from yours.
People generally recognize the USA as being the beacon
of individual freedom, not enforcement of conformity for arbitrary and capricious irrational reasons.
Should everyone belong to a bowling league just because many people do? And for those who are not in a bowling league,
should they be shunned? Should non-bowlers be penalized by omission in law, as homosexual couples currently are?
Again, polygamy is most definitely not an experimental lifestyle, and it is not restricted to remote locations, no matter how hard one yells and screams. People should
feel free to choose the lifestyle they please, as long
as there is mutual consent in interactions with others.
Your personal moral values are yours, which you are welcome to keep.
Why can’t you simply allow everyone else to have their own?
Here is the definition of bigot from webster:
Bigot
a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance.
See anything familiar in your own opinions??
Whatever happened to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness?
???