I don’t see that making polygamy illegal as a bad thing.
Your claim that “Christian persecution of heretics gave us international Islamism and, eventually homosexual (& everything else) marriage”.
How you get from “a” to “z” is a mystery. By “persecuting heretics” are you referring to your second link, or something else? Mormons are odd cult and they were engaging in some pretty nefarious acts including criminal ones and I reeeeeally don’t think either one of those acts you link to have a single solitary thing to do with the homo agenda or Islamic jihad, which has been around for 1400 years. BTW Islam has been internationally conquering, terrorizing, mass slaughtering and forcibly concverting since 700 AD.
Do a little search on the Monophysites and the Ghassanids - another “odd cult”, “engaging in some pretty nefarious acts”. The Byzantines persecuted them into the hands of Islam.
If you think that marriage is a federal issue and religious freedom isn’t then by all means celebrate laws that target specific religions for their religious practices. That’s not Constitutional, at least not per the American Constitution. It’s the entire reason America exists - religious liberty, the freedom of thought and conscience.
We’re paying dearly for those 19th century sins against religious practices. The issue of marriage isn’t a federal question, it isn’t a national question it’s a question of religious liberty, the freedom of thought and conscience.
Homosexual marriage is a farce, but federal interference in what amount to thought crimes and religious practices is quite directly the cause of today’s trauma. There’s little federal action you can look to reverse if you think those cases are Constitutional.
Take a look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_v._United_States#Religious_Duty_argument
The Court didn’t look to the Constitution, which is patently clear, Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, instead they looked to the letters of Thomas Jefferson. They equated polygyny which is Biblical and God has condoned in the past with human sacrifice which [Judeo-Christian] God has always condemned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_v._United_States#Religious_Duty_argument
In short, they twisted the Constitution to fit a popular view. Take a read of the proceedings:
http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/98/145/case.html
Here’s a short summary: http://www.oyez.org/cases/1851-1900/1878/1878_0
Now what if government outlawed a religious action, like proselytizing, but not an opinion? Replace polygamy with proselytizing or baptizing or prayer and you’ll see, perhaps more clearly why it’s bad law and why we continue to suffer under it today.
Our public school system was born of the same manipulative intent to control the human mind. It’s a bad idea all around.