Posted on 07/12/2011 8:17:26 PM PDT by EmpireStateConservative
Who didn’t know this wasn’t coming?
Take a wild guess what’s next....
-The 1972 Gay Rights Platform-
Repeal of all laws governing the age of sexual consent.
http://www.article8.org/docs/general/platform.htm
ah, ok....umm...gay-couples require no huge legal changes, while those required by polygamy would...? Since per gays marriage is about love, why cannot one wed, say, a much-beloved DOG..?
Gay people helped *Mormons*, ahahhahaha...!!!
All I can say is this, once you RE-DEFINE what all societies throughout history have meant, the word becomes anything you want it to mean.
In fact, it can be argued that POLYGAMY has a better historical precedent than gay marriage.
Someday they will want to be able to marry their own children
Traditional marriage activists, or gay rights activists who don’t want to see the debate about same-sex marriage dragged down the slippery slope...Hey dimwit. It's the same-sex marriage shit that's dragging everything down...
“In fact, it can be argued that POLYGAMY has a better historical precedent than gay marriage”
Yes it can. Polygamy is practiced in quite a few corners of the world today. I can never support queers getting married.
Why aren’t the Libs embracing polygamy?
Is Obama’s position of polygamy also “evolving”?
It's a no brainer. Polygamy has been practiced in practically every culture in the world at one time or another. Homosexual marriage? Before the modern "gay rights" movement, I have not found any references.
RE: Is Obama’s position of polygamy also “evolving”?
Seeing his sympathies with Muslims, I highly doubt it.
After all, the Muslims are allowed to have several wives, why should our laws not be modified to accomodate their deeply held beliefs?
Aren’t they Americans too? What about equal protection?
See... you start playing this constitutional game for one group and it becomes applicable to others.
Polygamy makes more sense than gay marriage, but for the life of me I don’t know why any one would want all hand wringing that would go with having multiple wives.
It hasn't changed. Muslims can have 4 wives. If he can get both gay marriage and polygamy, then he can dump Michelle and join a harem with 4 other guys.
You know what? I don’t care what any of them want. The homosexuals, the bigamists, or any of the perverts that seem to catch a headline.
This Country is on the line. We are allowing our freedoms to fade away while we place a stake in whether gays can marry or people can marry their pet goat, or double up on wives.
Let God sort them out (and you know He will).
We have bigger fish to fry.
Better question: "Where is CAIR with their billions. Ragheads love multiple wives.
This is not to endorse Mormonism or polygamy (or polyandry), it is merely an observation:
Polygamy is MUCH closer to the human norm over the millenia than is homosexual “marriage”. It does create economic and social imbalances (like we need more of those right now), but it is a distortion of the norm rather than a repudiation of it.
Just sayin’ . . .
“Before the modern “gay rights” movement, I have not found any references.”
Closest example I have found - quite by accident - is with some American Indians and some Central Asians (who share the same ethnic and cultural origins if you go back far enough) of antiquity. It was by no means what is being pushed in these final declining days of western secular civilization though.
In the rare cases of hermaphrodites (now called intersex), the androgynous person would assume the bearing, role and mannerisms of male or female, and set up house with a member of the ‘opposite’ sex. These unions were permitted, along the lines of “what else can so-and-so do?”, rather than anything to be celebrated or encouraged. So these nomadic cultures allowed the simulation of a normal arrangement to someone who was through no personal choice or fault in an ambiguous physical category. THAT is the sole analogy I can find, and it is not really the same thing at all.
I cannot remember the book. It was a serious study of shamanist cultures and I read it more than thirty years ago.
Next year, I’m going to marry my cat.
In another year, I’ll have to marry my dirty socks to get any attention.
Polygyny should be legal.
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