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Was Rick Santorum Right About Polygamy After All?
The Daily Beast ^
| December 16, 2013
| Justin Miller
Posted on 12/16/2013 5:16:42 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Republican was once savaged for suggesting polygamy could become legal if the Supreme Court killed anti-sodomy laws. Now a judge has ruled against Utahs anti-polygamy statute.
A decade ago, Rick Santorum said polygamy, among other things, would be allowed if bans on sodomy were struck down by the Supreme Court.
Sometimes I hate it when what I predict comes true, the once and likely future Republican presidential candidate tweeted Sunday after a federal judge decriminalized polygamy in Utah.
Judge Clark Waddoups ruled late Friday that parts of the states law are unconstitutional, based on a Supreme Court ruling that legalized sodomy across the nation.
In 2003, referring to the landmark gay rights case Lawrence v. Texas before the Supreme Court, Santorum told the Associated Press:
If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery.(continued)
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; US: Pennsylvania; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: demagogue; gaymarriage; homosexualagenda; moralabsolutes; polyamory; polyandery; polygamistagenda; polygamy; polygyny; santorum; supremecourt; utah
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So almost 60% supposedly are fine with same-sex marriage, but 83% disapprove of polygamy? Huh?
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
12/16/2013 5:17:46 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
To: SkyDancer
Unless you marry sisters you’ll have more than one mother-in-law. Yikes! How did King Solomon put up with that?
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posted on
12/16/2013 5:19:41 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(A courageous man finds a way, an ordinary man finds an excuse.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I’m guessing that incest is next on the agenda.
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posted on
12/16/2013 5:19:45 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
>>So almost 60% supposedly are fine with same-sex marriage, but 83% disapprove of polygamy? Huh?<<
When I asked “why 2” I was pelted with stones.
Next up — a petition to marry one’s sibling, mother, father, or any combination thereof.
Since same-sex couples cannot procreate naturally all incest taboos are rendered moot.
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posted on
12/16/2013 5:21:20 PM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Fight Tapinophobia in all its forms! Do not submit to arduus privilege.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
He was a king. Lacking that kind of power you’re probably going to have trouble.
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posted on
12/16/2013 5:22:02 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
12/16/2013 5:23:18 PM PST
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
12/16/2013 5:23:34 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(A courageous man finds a way, an ordinary man finds an excuse.)
To: SkyDancer
The price for marrying two women is two wives. And two mothers-in-law.
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posted on
12/16/2013 5:24:04 PM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(From time to time the.tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.)
To: TigersEye
Hahahaha! I was thinking that as I pressed “post.”
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posted on
12/16/2013 5:24:21 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(A courageous man finds a way, an ordinary man finds an excuse.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Conservatives saw this coming from more than a decade away.
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posted on
12/16/2013 5:25:54 PM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(From time to time the.tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
12/16/2013 5:25:58 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I bet he still had indigestion at time. lol
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posted on
12/16/2013 5:26:59 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
To: cripplecreek
Of course polygamy is next, but incest will not be far behind, especially now since the problem of birth defects has been worked out through contraception and abortion.
Pedophiles are working on making that legal.
You see these things are all becoming recognized by psychiatrists as merely preferences and not perversions.
When they took down homosexuality as a perversion and made it a preference they started the ball rolling for all sexual perversions to be recognized. people who accept this must accept all preferences.
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posted on
12/16/2013 5:35:23 PM PST
by
Venturer
(Half Staff the Flag of the US for Terrorists.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
BTW I not surprise with TLC Sister wives get good ratings even they show how freaky this family is I have feeling Utah would say OKAY
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posted on
12/16/2013 5:37:15 PM PST
by
SevenofNine
(We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
To: driftdiver
I agree they will push to lower the age of consent eventually to puberty.
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posted on
12/16/2013 5:37:58 PM PST
by
TexasFreeper2009
(Obama lied .. the economy died.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Tooth paste, you get back in the tube right now!
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posted on
12/16/2013 5:39:47 PM PST
by
Standing Wolf
(No tyrant should ever be allowed to die of natural causes.)
To: TexasFreeper2009
I dont think they will stop at puberty. They already argue that children have a right to sex.
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posted on
12/16/2013 5:40:24 PM PST
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: TigersEye
I’m thinking he still had trouble. Maybe that’s why so many of his Psalms are written from the depths of despair?
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posted on
12/16/2013 5:42:24 PM PST
by
knittnmom
(Save the earth! It's the only planet with chocolate!)
To: SevenofNine
I watched 3 or 4 episodes and they seemed like a good family except for the polygyny (the actual term when a man has multiple wives) and they reminded me of Duck Dynasty in some ways.
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posted on
12/16/2013 5:43:13 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(A courageous man finds a way, an ordinary man finds an excuse.)
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