Decisions decisions!
Free societies are free because they have a right to order their societies as they see fit, not according to the wishes of a tyrant.
It doesn’t mean anybody can do anything. If a murder cult claims religious freedom to kill anyone they feel like, are we bound to respect that?
Monogamy and marriage are social institutions arrived at because they create stable societies that are durable. All the other “-amys” - bigamy, polygamy, whatever - have been tried and lead to ugly, dysfunctional societies.
Conservatism supposedly recognizes this. And only fools tread where disaster has gone before.
The Mormons were going to end up being slaughtered by angry armies of men deprived of their wives and families when Mormon missionaries showed up in their towns 150 years ago. That’s why they had to stay on the move. Young could run around with his 56 wives but he had damn well better trained them to shoot, because there that many men and more who could shoot and would to get at a guy who tried to take us back to barbarian tribalism with the Big Man having all the women.
Polygamy is barbarian. Try it again and civil strife will be the result.
Our civilization was formed and advanced around tribal societies where there was no monogamy. Monogamy is a much more recent custom. You may not like it but that is the truth.
I value my freedom as provided to me by the constitution which also includes my freedom from those who want to impose their religious beliefs on me. It makes no difference if their faith is islam or christian our constitution prevents that from happening. My rights I will fight for.
You see our country being great because of christanity. I see our country as having grown into a great nation because of freedom and hard work. Our nation had to overcome the puritan nature of the colonists before they could prosper and become a world power. Think industrial revolution and what society was like during that time. Science and industry led the way through the late teens, roaring 20's, and through the end of the second world war. Prohibition was rescinded, energy exploration was massive, industrial growth in a huge growth spurt, women entered the work force in massive numbers and our nation won a great war. At every turn at every step forward in this procession of national growth the religious right predicted it would cause the fall of our nation.
It didn't happen then and has not happen in the thousands of the same type of predictions since then.
There has not been a world power theocracy on this earth in the last few hundred years. There will not be any led by any man or men in the future.
