Seriously though, based on the ruling and the gay judge’s interpretation of the 14th Amendment, polygamy and incest should be covered under this ruling, right?
Right,and anything else consenting adults can dream up.
>> Seriously though, based on the ruling and the gay judge’s interpretation of the 14th Amendment, polygamy and incest should be covered under this ruling, right? <<
Carling, the way I understand it: No.
People can accuse Walker of a lot of things - judicial activism, liberal agenda, power-hungry tyranny - but he’s certainly smart because he *purposely* closed off the possibility of polygamy by ruling that his findings were based upon the fact that men were being denied marriage licenses to wed other men *because of their gender*, which the Supremes have ruled is off limits (men and women must be treated equally in all things).
He said something along the lines of “there is no such thing as ‘gay marriage’ there is only ‘marriage’ and this court is removing the restriction based upon gender just like it did with race.” It’s toward the end of the ruling but I’m too lazy to go look up the exact page; you can find it online. He knew exactly what he was doing and he did it on purpose so there is no way someone can use this to support multiple marriages. It was almost diabolically brilliant because he made it impossible for people to use the slippery slope argument on appeal.
I’ve said it before, but I just don’t really care about the whole gay marriage thing, nor does most of my generation, because I believe with every ounce of my being that 95%+ to 99%+ of men are straight and want to bang (pardon the phrase), be with, and grow old with women.
I don’t think having gay marriage be an option is suddenly going to cause men throughout the country to go, “Oh, gee! I should have been screwing Steve all along.” I just have too much faith in the incorrigible nature of men who want nothing more than to get in a woman’s pants, generally speaking. That is why the slippery slope thing doesn’t seem particularly probable to me. (You could make eating worms legal - wait, it is - and I’m not going to go do it because it’s repulsive based on my nature. When it comes to gay sex, I think virtually all men are wired to feel the same way. It holds zero interest or appeal.)
What I don’t get about polygamy: When you have a group of people joining together to form an economic unit, isn’t that called a corporation? What is the purpose of saying it is “marriage”? No one has explained that one to me yet.