Posted on 06/25/2013 10:46:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Looks like there is a slippery slope after all and gay marriage really could lead to polygamy. According to U.S. News and World Report, polyamory advocate Anita Wagner Illig said that gay marriage is setting the standard to make polygamy and polyamory legal.
“We polyamorists are grateful to our [LGBT] brothers and sisters for blazing the marriage equality trail,” said Illig, who is the head of polyamory advocacy group called Practical Polyamory.
Anticipating the Supreme Court’s decision on same-sex marriage this week, US New’s reporter Steven Nelson interviewed Illig to see how polyamorists and polygamists feel about the possibility of redefining marriage. Nelson reported that Illig admitted “the polyamory community has expressed little desire for legal marriage” until now, but that in light of gay marriage gaining wider acceptance, “more options seem possible in the future.”
Illig insisted that the legalization of gay marriage would set an undeniable precedent for polyamorists seeking legal “multi-partner marriage.”
“A favorable outcome for marriage equality is a favorable outcome for multi-partner marriage,” she argued, because gay marriage would then provide “precedent” for “other forms of non-traditional relationships.”
Illig, whose husband has a girlfriend, believes that the legal acceptance for polygamy would “eliminate a common challenge polyamorists face,” and would be more likely to happen should the Supreme Court rule in favor of gay marriage this week.
Despite denials from left-wingers like CNN’s Piers Morgan and MSNBC’s Luke Russert, it’s getting harder and harder for liberals to ignore reality: legalizing gay marriage will lead to legalizing polygamy. Lefty newspaper Slate’s writer Jillian Keenan openly advocated legalizing polygamy earlier this year, and Huffington Post’s Abby Huntsman admitted that legalizing gay marriage would “open the door” to polygamy “and other things.”
Not to mention, of course, MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry who asserted that “We do want to change marriage.” With gay couples and now “multi-partner” marriage on the horizon, one wonders whether marriage will even be recognizable by the time the left is done changing it.
Oh, I bet. Don't thank them, though. Thank the liberals who pushed this because they want to redefine and destroy the traditional family.
“A favorable outcome for marriage equality is a favorable outcome for multi-partner marriage,” she argued, because gay marriage would then provide “precedent” for “other forms of non-traditional relationships.”
Of course. The exact same liberals who argued that legalizing gay marriage is as far as it will go will now be on board fully to redefine marriage again. Afterall, they, by their own definition, wouldn't want to be bigoted and intolerant.
That’s the world you want for your daughter? Or doesn’t a selfish pig give a damn about anyone else?
Nightline has done two segments on polygamous relationships since March. In lockstep to continue this insanity towards pre-Biblical days of anything goes. Which worked out really well for women, by the way. Bastards.
You marry your wife’s hotter sister. Still only one M-I-L.
Do you really want multiple mother in laws or all those wives pms’ing at the same time???
LoL. You’ll still have to deal with the potential drama.
many of us were told that we were stupid to mention this years back and told to not mention social issues.
Yea staying silent for those people really worked
Other than taxes, the major connection I see between government and marriage is military and employment benefits to families. How many spouses should the military cover per service member?
he was being sarc and I’ll answer .
Because many people marry who do not have the same religion, don’t believe in God, the church does not say who gets the kids or the house,
Even the founding father used judges so the liberaltarian cop out or pro homo talking point of no Govt is a wash out
no, you do know that not all who marry get married in a church, right?
The church does not do divorce or who gets the kids and house.
Falling that cop out of a bumpers ticker of no Govt does not really work
Funny think is Polygamy has been around many centuries and was/is the norm for many societies and cultures . Homosexual “unions” have never been a cultural norm or accepted as the norm until this recent push.
{Slippery slope? I would frankly consider polygamy a step up. There is at least some biological sense to the arrangement.}
Yep that’s exactly what I just posted. Polygamy is not as bad and historically has been a part of cultures around the world. I don’t want it here but to act as if it’s worse or as bad as gays getting hooking up and calling it a marriage? Noway it’s as bad.
Mogger is on a suicide mission. lol
I felt she should also support the guy down the street that was in a committed relationship with his German shepherd and wanted to marry her.
Or how about that nice Muslim man across the street that wanted to marry a 13 year old or we could also talk about the woman on the corner that was really in love with her Honda civic.
I told her we all have a line we won't cross, I just chose to draw mine in a different place than she did.
Yeah, cultures that treat women as possessions and members of a herd, and not as people. Cultures that are very violent, as one man getting multiple wives mean that other men go without wives. Cultures of dirt.
Polygamy offers up lots of sex (for the man) and very little love, for the women, the children, or the family.
Is that the kind of culture you want to bring here? Just look at how those enclaves of polygamy do in Utah!
How many people can you marry and put on your medical? Both sexes, too.
“What business does the government have telling me how many wives I can have?
I should be able to have as many as I can afford, a harem.” What business does the government have telling me my wife has to be human? See you at the Bestiality Pride Parade.
“I would frankly consider polygamy a step up. There is at least some biological sense to the arrangement.”
Unless, of course, you’re talking gay polygamists.
Why be harangued in mono when you can have stereo! ;-)
Noway I stated I don’t want it here and think its wrong. We all know a lot of the men who engage in polygamy are also pedophiles because they “condition” future wives at puberty.
Just sayin’ it has been around and accepted for hundreds of years. Where homosexual pairings were always a taboo, even though they too have always existed.
We are getting ready to do something even more crazy than polygamy is my point.
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