Posted on 10/26/2013 6:44:26 AM PDT by madprof98
(CNN) -- Revelers in the rainbow-washed crowd smiled and cheered this month as the little blond girl in the parade float pageant-waved to the B-52's "Love Shack."
Next to the float, the girl's father, Billy Holder, handed out fliers to the Atlanta Pride Parade crowd. His wife, Melissa, carried a banner along with Jeremy Mullins, the couple's partner.
"Polyamory: Having simultaneous close emotional relationships with two or more other individuals," read their purple-lettered banner, embellished with an infinity heart.
They've learned the need for discretion. They said a family member reported them to Georgia's Division of Family and Children Services, alleging child abuse and prompting a weeks-long investigation. The Holders said it ended with no charges being laid and their daughter remaining in the home. Georgia's Division of Family and Children Services did not return multiple phone calls seeking comment.
But the experience also informed some of their desire to change public perceptions of polyamory.
So they march, and organize and raise their daughter the best they can. Their meetup groups continue to grow and they're looking forward bringing in new speakers to 2014's Atlanta Poly Weekend.
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This is what you get when you alow the State to get in the business of defining things it has no business defining in the first place.
It is simple. Once you re-define something, then you make it much easier to re-define it over and over again.
The sick freaks won’t be happy until everyone is having orgies with their own kids.
Heck, The Little Rascals sang about it years ago....”Life would be ecstasy, you and me, and Leslie....Groovin’.....”
That should be the “Young Rascals”.
What’s especially important is who is doing the defining. The State should play no role whatsoever in defining marriage. None.
In theory I’d be OK with me and a couple of hot chicks. I’m sure reality would set in VERY quickly.
The fact of the matter is there have been poly marriages (with partial paperwork) for a long long time. The only thing that’s happening now is they’re not hiding as much. I mentioned the trinary I know, I also know a poly couple that’s been married for 27 year, their secondaries haven’t been permanent but together they have. Very few of their friends know, I’d known them for about 15 years before they told me, because they don’t want the hassle of explaining it and judgement. It’s important to keep that secrecy in mind, you probably know polies, you just don’t know you know. One of the big things I’ve learned is that most of the “normal” couples I know aren’t actually that normal, they just tend to make themselves look normal to cut down on life flack. The only “progression” here is the progression of openness, people are more willing to admit their abnormality to more people.
got a better guess why Romney supported what he knew would lead to gay marriage?
I didn’t know Alfalfa was a tenor...
Just like the Catholic finger-in-the-wind politicians and the Baptist finger-in-the-wind politicians and the Lutheran finger-in-the-wind politicians, etc., etc., etc.
It's really no more sinister than that, despite your particular anti-mormon psychosis.
Very manly of you, by the way, to ping Colofornian to the thread. I have no use for him, either.
I guess reading what may be true is not making you happy...
The opposite (polygamy) seems like Hell On Earth to me.
Just imagine you have 3 women and those 3 women have 3 men and all those men have 3 women and all those women have 3 men
and someone gets an STD
Amen and please pass the gravy.
If you run through life with a fear of life, you're not living.
This is just more perversion for libertopians to indoctrinate children to join into.
The moment you stop using this slur and abandon the accompanying philosophy is the second I stop trying to persuade you of the truth, because you will have realized it.
Libertarianism is a Utopian philosophy that ignores human nature and all of human history.
Tell that to Jefferson, Madison, etc. and the famous Paul family from your home state.
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