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Polygamy upsets gay activists
Kansas City Star ^ | Mar. 19, 2006 | CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER

Posted on 03/22/2006 8:01:47 PM PST by neverdem

WASHINGTON — And now, polygamy.

With the sweetly titled HBO series “Big Love,” polygamy comes out of the closet. Under the headline “Polygamists, Unite!” Newsweek informs us of “polygamy activists emerging in the wake of the gay-marriage movement.” Says one evangelical Christian big lover: “Polygamy rights is the next civil-rights battle.”

Polygamy used to be stereotyped as the province of secretive Mormons, primitive Africans and profligate Arabs. With “Big Love” it moves to suburbia as a mere alternative lifestyle.

As Newsweek notes, these stirrings for the mainstreaming of polygamy (or, more accurately, polyamory) have their roots in the increasing legitimization of gay marriage. In an essay 10 years ago, I pointed out that it is utterly logical for polygamy rights to follow gay rights. After all, if traditional marriage is defined as the union of (1) two persons of (2) opposite gender, and if, as gay marriage advocates insist, the gender requirement is nothing but prejudice, exclusion and an arbitrary denial of one’s autonomous choices in love, then the first requirement — the number restriction (two and only two) — is a similarly arbitrary, discriminatory and indefensible denial of individual choice.

This line of argument makes gay activists furious. I can understand why they do not want to be in the same room as polygamists. But I’m not the one who put them there. Their argument does.

Blogger and author Andrew Sullivan, who had the courage to advocate gay marriage at a time when it was considered pretty crazy, has called this the “polygamy diversion,” arguing that homosexuality and polygamy are categorically different because polygamy is a mere “activity” while homosexuality is an intrinsic state that “occupies a deeper level of human consciousness.”

But this distinction between higher and lower orders of love is precisely what gay rights activists so...

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: gayrights; homosexualagenda; krauthammer; pansexuals; polygamy; slipperyslope
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To: JRochelle

Polyamory also includes women with multiple male partners. So not only do you have to deal with inlaws through multiple wives, but also your wives' multiple boyfriends.

Family trees will look like grapevines in a short time.

I know several polyamory people. They are not mentally oe emotionally stable.

Pinz


141 posted on 03/23/2006 7:41:29 AM PST by pinz-n-needlez
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To: RHINO369

>>Its definitely worse for society though.

Not to mention the costs for Welfare, insurance, and schools...


142 posted on 03/23/2006 7:42:07 AM PST by DelphiUser ("You can lead a man to knowledge, but you can't make him think")
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To: weegee

The only thing that the Sodomites procreate through anal sex are.........lawyers.


143 posted on 03/23/2006 7:42:39 AM PST by jslade (Liberalism ALWAYS accomplishes the exact opposite of it's stated intent!)
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To: jslade

LOL!

What do you call a firm full of sky diving lawyers?




Skeet!


144 posted on 03/23/2006 7:48:08 AM PST by DelphiUser ("You can lead a man to knowledge, but you can't make him think")
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To: jslade

I am sitting here with a friend trying to figure out how the homosexuals came up with the word GAY to describle themselves. I tried to look it up and got no answers. So can someone please tell us why they call themselves GAY. I'm at a loss here because any of the gay people I know are not gay ( as meaning happy, joyful) they are usally moaning and groaning over relationships. Would someone explain it to me as I must be ignorant here because I truly don't know.


145 posted on 03/23/2006 7:52:18 AM PST by pandoraou812 ( barbaric with zero tolerance and dilligaf?)
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To: RHINO369
If one guy has 6 wives there are 5 guys who cannot possibly get a woman.

You assume marital fidelity. There are plenty of guys out there with 6 women. Some married them, sequentially. Some never bothered to marry them.

The truth is, we have polygamy right now. We just call it divorce and remarriage.

146 posted on 03/23/2006 7:52:39 AM PST by LexBaird ("I'm not questioning your patriotism, I'm answering your treason."--JennysCool)
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To: DelphiUser

What's the difference between dealing with lawyers and gay sex?





Nothing.


147 posted on 03/23/2006 7:58:26 AM PST by LexBaird ("I'm not questioning your patriotism, I'm answering your treason."--JennysCool)
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To: ElkGroveDan
...not far behind is bestiality

There was a recent story posted, where a guy was forced to marry a goat in Africa.

With the Supreme Court using foreign precedents, it will soon be here.

148 posted on 03/23/2006 8:06:06 AM PST by Dan(9698)
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To: LexBaird
"You assume marital fidelity. There are plenty of guys out there with 6 women. Some married them, sequentially. Some never bothered to marry them.

The truth is, we have polygamy right now. We just call it divorce and remarriage."

There may be guys out there who sleep around on their wives, but its gotta be extremely rare that one man has 6 women to himself. There are alot of men and women who sleep around alot, but they keep each other busy. Most people in todays society get into relationships with one person. They may not last for life, but they pair off.

To have a polygamist society would insure the rich and well off males would have multiple wives, and the young men wouldn't have any. The big problem is young men are very violent by nature. There's a reason young men fight wars, we are immature, strong, smart yet very unwise, don't think we can die, and can be extremely brutal.
149 posted on 03/23/2006 8:07:59 AM PST by RHINO369
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To: Dan(9698)

Why was the man forced to marry the goat? I missed that one.


150 posted on 03/23/2006 8:13:23 AM PST by pandoraou812 ( barbaric with zero tolerance and dilligaf?)
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To: pandoraou812

He was caught buggerin' the goat.

Where is PETA when ya need em?


151 posted on 03/23/2006 8:19:26 AM PST by JRochelle
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To: LexBaird

That's bad, but good if you know what I mean...

(Refraining from taking over the thread with lawyer jokes... If there's already a thread, somebody ping me :-)


152 posted on 03/23/2006 8:26:40 AM PST by DelphiUser ("You can lead a man to knowledge, but you can't make him think")
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To: neverdem

This is one of those very rare occasions when I'm glad that some people out there are just crazy enough to take the perversion up a notch.


153 posted on 03/23/2006 8:29:25 AM PST by Doohickey (If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice...I will choose freewill.)
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To: pandoraou812

>>I am sitting here with a friend trying to figure out how
>>the homosexuals came up with the word GAY to describle
>>themselves.

They couldn't spell homsaxuale.





To the Spelling cop: Spelling error intentional, sir.
Do we have an acronym for a drum roll?


154 posted on 03/23/2006 8:30:21 AM PST by DelphiUser ("You can lead a man to knowledge, but you can't make him think")
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To: BenLurkin

Nope, I think it means just the opposite. Liberals have been able to advance their agenda but are now overreaching. They're about to drain all of the "tolerance" out of the American people.


155 posted on 03/23/2006 8:32:20 AM PST by Doohickey (If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice...I will choose freewill.)
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood
Which “founding father” is that???
Father"S". So sorry.

Where is it enumerated that marriage is a “right” in the Constitution?
Rights of Americans are not limited to those that are enumerated while our government's powers are supposed to be limited to those enumerated. The very concept of peoples rights only being those which are enumerated and the powers of government being unlimited with the exception of intruding upon those same enumerated rights is the complete diametric opposite of the way the constitution is written.

Where is regulation of Marriage enumerated as a power of the Federal Government?

So, we should allow ritual murder as a “right” of religious freedom???
This question clearly has nothing to do with my position. If you wish to argue with someone over religious freedom I'm sure someone else would be happy to oblige you.
156 posted on 03/23/2006 8:33:11 AM PST by Durus ("Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." JFK)
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To: neverdem

OH, I love the irony of how this is biting the gays in the ass!! If they can take a d*ck, they should be able to take this as the natural result of their actions!


157 posted on 03/23/2006 8:36:10 AM PST by Capagrl (Never argue with stupid people; they drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.)
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To: Durus
"Rights of Americans are not limited to those that are enumerated while our government's powers are supposed to be limited to those enumerated. The very concept of peoples rights only being those which are enumerated and the powers of government being unlimited with the exception of intruding upon those same enumerated rights is the complete diametric opposite of the way the constitution is written."

Unfortunately few Americans know this, and even fewer in government.
158 posted on 03/23/2006 8:41:49 AM PST by RHINO369
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To: DelphiUser

roflllllllllll But truly I dont know and all the gay people I have ever known were not happy at all.They were always b.tching and moaning over their lovers, males or females. They sure weren't happy or gay.


159 posted on 03/23/2006 8:50:45 AM PST by pandoraou812 ( barbaric with zero tolerance and dilligaf?)
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To: JRochelle

So they made him marry the goat. I hope she was female at least. Tell me it wasn't a male goat please.


160 posted on 03/23/2006 8:53:11 AM PST by pandoraou812 ( barbaric with zero tolerance and dilligaf?)
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