[Auntie Dem]

4) Polygamy and bigamy aren't just illegal because they're immoral. They are illegal because it (unfairly, in my opinion) allows 30, 40, or 50 year old men to enslave 13 year old girls as one of their "wives".

Well, are you going to break this news to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, and the other patriarchs who practiced polygamy with God's approval? If you can cite any scripture where homosexual acts were practiced with God's approval, I might be willing to reconsider your moral equivalence, but until then...

The horse is already out of the barn on this issue. The Supreme Court decided circa 1890 the federal government had the right to regulate marriage when they ruled the Mormon's practice of plural marriage as a religious belief was not protected under the First Amendment.

If a Biblically approved practice of religious belief can be banned, where do the gays get the idea their behavior gives them a greater "right"?

[Buckeye Bomber]

The country has every right to regulate whether marriages can be granted. I am not debating so-called "defense of marriage" laws. Marriage is a public contract, and is therefore subject to legislative regulation.

Sexual intercourse is an altogether different matter. If a man wants to have 20 women living in his house, and they all agree, and he's having sex with all of them, that's his right. If a man and woman who happen to be adults from the same genetic line choose to have sex, that is their right.