Posted on 03/25/2013 8:14:55 PM PDT by Olog-hai
With the Supreme Court set this week to hear two historic challenges to the traditional definition of marriage, pro-family advocates are charging that legalizing gay marriage would “inevitably” lead to the legalization of polygamy as well.
“No question about it,” Dr. Richard Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, told Newsmax.TV in an exclusive interview Monday afternoon. “If you make the ultimate value a person’s right to express their sexuality with another person and to have that identified as marriage, then how do you keep polygamy from happening?
“How do you keep consensual adult siblings from getting married?” he added. “How do you keep a consensual father and adult daughter from getting married? Incest and polygamy will come right after it.” …
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If we redefine marriage to mean any two or more consenting adults, then marriage means nothing anymore.
I will probably just get a divorce just so I will not be identified with a perverted institution.
Cases of polygamy were not sanctioned by God. They are in the Bible as examples of sinful ways of life; not even Jacob got away with it without being burned. Abraham was monogamous apart from his tryst with Hagar. Isaac was never mentioned as being polygamous either, but monogamous with Rebekah. Esau was a polygamist. David and Solomon were especially plagued because of their polygamy.
The first example of a polygamist in the Bible is the first man to be named Lamech, a sixth-generation descendant of Cain’s line (from Genesis 4), and he is mentioned as being a shameless murderer to boot.
Agreed. Polygamy at least has a long history of acceptance, while homosexuality has almost always been viewed as a disgusting perversion of nature.
The Supreme Court banned polygamy in a decision in the 1800s, that basically said ‘This is a Christian nation and polygamy is awful’. However, the Supreme Court often reverses itself, and will have no rational basis for rejecting polygamy if gay sex turns into gay marriage.
Alas, Brave New Babylon.
There was a woman who married the Eiffel Tower. Another woman “married” the Berlin Wall.
Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.
That must be said with a terrific Italian accent.
One woman claimed to have “married” the Berlin Wall. Another claimed to have “married” the Eiffel Tower.
They will and are. Saudi oil, anyone?
GMTA!
I always think of the show sister wives when the topic of polygamy comes up... I admit to being curious and having watched the show once or twice. I suggested perhaps If this man could have sister wives, then perhaps I could have brother husbands. This did not go over well....
In sharp contrast, sodomy is completely forbidden - in both the OT and the NT, not to mention all of Holy Tradition, the Natural Law, and the teachings of the Church for the last 2,000 years. St. Paul calls it an "abomination." Moses mandated the death penalty in all cases for sodomy (two guys).
Sodomy is a capital felony, polygamy is more like a minor misdemeanor in comparison.
And then there’s the issue of one spouse not being compelled to testify in court against the other.
Levirate marriage was not polygamous. Nor was the case of captive women becoming wives of Hebrews (Deuteronomy 21:11-13 says wife instead of concubine and mentions no polygamy). Don’t fall for the Muslim misinterpretations.
Look at the case of Tamar, who married Er, then Onan, and then was supposed to marry Shelah (who Judah in his faithlessness kept from marrying Tamar, not understanding why Er and Onan died and blaming it on Tamar erroneously). None of those sons of Judah had other wives. And Judah’s liaison with Tamar was never painted in a good light.
Of course it was marriage. What else could it have been? Look, it's either marriage or fornication. It can't be both.
You're grasping at straws.
See? He has to marry her. Why do you resist this?
The low information (retarded) voters have already married the 'Rat (Party) Party.
Note the special case of brothers living together. Once the other brothers get married off, they would not be living together.
One of the aspects of Cloward -Piven. A "man" can put his male "wife" or soon to be "wives" on his medical ins. plan. They will soon get SS survivor's benefits. They already are getting federal and state benefits in many cases, all from a gubmint that is broke.
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