Posted on 03/26/2013 1:25:49 PM PDT by CHRISTIAN DIARIST
As the Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in a landmark case that seeks to establish marriage equality as the law of the land, my thoughts turned to Kody Brown, David Epstein and Kenneth Pinyan.
Brown, who appears with his four brides and 17 children in the TLC reality show Sister Wives, faces prosecution for violating Utahs ban on polygamy.
Epstein, a Columbia University political science professor, was charged last year with one count of incest for his three-year consensual sexual relationship with his 24-year-old daughter.
And Pinyan, the subject of a documentary film, Zoo, which won an award at the Sundance Film Festival, died after having sex with an Arabian stallion at a Washington state horse farm.
If the nations highest court declares that same-sex marriage is protected somehow by the Constitution, it follows that polygamous marriage, incestuous marriage and who knows? maybe even interspecies marriage must be similarly countenanced under the law.
Because if justices embrace a secularist, laissez faire approach to marriage, if they accept the premise President Obama tweeted yesterday Every American should be able to marry the person they love the legal takeaway will be anything goes.
If a man loves four different women, like Brown, have a five-way marriage. If a man has the hots for his daughter, like Epstein, marry her. If a man is smitten with an Arabian horse, like Pinyan, who are we to say they shouldnt be wed?
That sounds absurd to those of us who continue to believe in holy as opposed to unholy matrimony. But know that there are defenders of even the most abberant relationships.
Indeed, Jenny Edwards, who runs Help for Horses, an organization that nurses abused and abandoned equines, arrived alongside police at the farm where Pinyan died after his sexual encounter with the stallion.
In Zoo, the documentary, she says she had a change of heart about man-horse relations. She came to appreciate zoophiles, like Pinyan, acknowledging, the love and care they give their animal partners.
As to interspecies sex? Im right at the edge of being able to understand it, she said.
Similarly, Matthew Galluzzo, attorney for Epstein, said there is nothing wrong with incestuous sex between consenting adults. Its okay for homosexuals to do whatever they want to do in their own home, he argued. How is this so different?
Brown makes his own same case. Let everyone, he said, including gays, including polygamists, including others in noncoventional relationships, Choose and define who you marry. Choose and define who you love.
If same-sex marriage receives the blessing of the Supreme Court, does anyone doubt that polygamists, incestuous adults, and who knows? maybe even zoophiles will be next to demand marriage equality?
For that is the unGodly path down which our fallen society is heading.
Getting the approval of a demonic state seems demented.
Isn’t polygamy up to four women OK for Muslims? Maybe this is O’s way of getting closer to Sharia.
So another part of America is in the toilet. Nothing new.
Sooner or later, we’re going to just have to bite the bullet (so to speak) and tell the Supreme Court (of mindless jesters) to shove it up their smelly collective Obamas.
They can degree all they want, but given the present low intellectual capacity of the court provided us by the Quota-baby-in-chief’s loathsome additions, we have no choice but to show ‘em the finger and dare them do do something about it.
And perhaps our military is going to have to decide which side to take - before CW-II starts in earnest.
ALL of America is in the TOILET......55 MILLION BABIES HAVE BEEN KILLED BY THEIR OWN MOTHERS.....EVERYWHERE in AMERICA!!
All this is only because the right won’t fight back.
Title should have been: “End of the United States as We had once Known it”.
I’ve concluded its all part of the plan.
The end is near for this country.
The whole point is to destroy the institution of marriage which has been the basic bedrock of civilization.
They truly wish to destroy civilization in order to rebuild the utopia.
Americans are living in fantasy land, hopefully the coming collapse will snap them back to the real world
Marriage ended when married people didn’t stay married.
I would guess that the average “marriage” now lasts no more than 4 years.
I was married 38 years before my wife died, but I’m from another generation.
At this point, I could care less about gay marriage. If sodomites and lesbians want to be together, it’s small potatoes in the big scheme of things.
The first time the government will enforce a church to observe such a marriage is where the line in the sand will be drawn.
It’s just another trial that we will need to go through.
“The end is near for marriage”?
Nope. Marriage is defined by God, and thus will outlast this country.
re: “Perhaps religious people should dispense with getting the state’s approval and go with a religious ceremony only.
Getting the approval of a demonic state seems demented.”
I see what you are saying, but the problem is, if same-sex marriage is “legal”, then “legally” we are all supposed to “recognize” its legitimacy. That is, ministers who refuse to perform such marriages could be prosecuted for discrimination, churches who refuse to recognize the same could be sued for discrimination. Insurance business owners will be forced to recognize such marriages, Christian hospitals, universities, secondary/elementary schools could be forced to hire such couples or lose their license to do business. It will never end.
It won’t really matter if churches withdraw from the “state” licensing to perform marriages or not - the low information voter will not see the distinction.
I’m not saying I disagree with you. I’m just not sure it would stop all the crap coming our way anyway.
Talk about a belated obituary. Marriage “as we know it” has been dead and buried in the U.S. for a few decades, at least.
“Marriage ended when married people didnt stay married.”
Bingo! Someone give this guy a kewpie doll!
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