Posted on 06/28/2013 7:16:07 AM PDT by NYer
Traditional marriage advocates have long argued that once you establish that marriage is simply a contract between consenting adults, polygamy is a necessary logical outgrowth. And every time we attempted to raise this point, others explained to us to shutup.
Well, it seems that shutup time is done as polygamists are celebrating The Supreme Court's decision as well.
Buzzfeed reports:
The Supreme Court’s rulings in favor of same-sex marriage Wednesday were greeted with excitement by polygamists across the country, who viewed the gay rights victory as a crucial step toward the country’s inevitable acceptance of plural marriage.Anita Wagner Illig, a leading polygamy activist, told U.S. News & World Report that gay-rights campaigners had set a welcome precedent. "We polyamorists are grateful to our brothers and sisters for blazing the marriage equality trail," she said.
Anne Wilde, a vocal advocate for polygamist rights who practiced the lifestyle herself until her husband died in 2003, praised the court’s decision as a sign that society’s stringent attachment to traditional “family values” is evolving.
“I was very glad… The nuclear family, with a dad and a mom and two or three kids, is not the majority anymore,” said Wilde. “Now it’s grandparents taking care of kids, single parents, gay parents. I think people are more and more understanding that as consenting adults, we should be able to raise a family however we choose.”
“We’re very happy with it,” said Joe Darger, a Utah-based polygamist who has three wives. “I think [the court] has taken a step in correcting some inequality, and that’s certainly something that’s going to trickle down and impact us.”
Noting that the court found the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional because the law denied marriage rights to a specific class of people, Darger said, “Our very existence has been classified as criminal… and I think the government needs to now recognize that we have a right to live free as much as anyone else.”...
But polygamists in the United States, where bigamy is a crime, have taken cues from the marriage equality movement, and the few public champions of the lifestyle have deliberately positioned themselves as libertarian-minded gay rights advocates as well. Following gay rights activists’ lead, polygamist families — like the Browns, with their TLC reality show Sister Wives, and the Dargers, who came out with a book last year — have come forward to convince the American public that their lifestyle can be wholesome and normal...
“I’m not a fortune-teller, but it seems like if more people are accepting of gay marriage, it would follow that polygamist marriage wouldn’t be criticized quite so much.”
Halderman, not Harrison. You’re right. Been watching B5 and Harrison was a consultant...
Also, there Melissa Scott had something like that in “5/12s of Heaven.” But that was more of a science/fantasy novel.
That was published in 1985.
I’m not a fortune-teller, but it seems like if more people are accepting of gay marriage, it would follow that polygamist marriage wouldn’t be criticized quite so much.”
The Bible tells us very plainly that homosexuality is an abomination but there is no such thing about plural marriage.
Since Gay marriage is about nothing except hatred toward God they want to use things that go against Gods very word.
The polygamist believe that if an abomination such as gay marriage can be excepted then why would such a minor thing such as plural marriage be such a big deal, they will go along with anything just to get their own way.
I would think that smoking a cigarette would not be such a big thing considering the fact that the majority of the people are as shown by the way they vote excepting an abomination such as gay marriage.
But i am not about to cheer for such an abomination.
I am sure to hear from people who think that using tobacco or drinking coffee is a sin, forget it, you would just be using tour own Gospel. not Christs.
You are talking mainly about the sicko Muslim cultures of today and the throwbacks to pre-medeival times. But I repeat myself.
In many native American cultures (including my Cherokee ancestors), it was traditional to betroth a girl barely out of diapers and, while these can be listed as marriages (much to the delight of perverts and the confusion of records when the tribe started keeping them in the late 18th century), these were in reality contracts for marriage with the actual delivery of the goods not taking place for another decade or so.
Yeah, it sounds weird to outsiders, but it was not uncommon even among whites in the Victorian Era and among Oriental cultures until a generation or two ago. The motivations were remarkably similar-- to build alliances among families and businesses and stability in the community.
Count me in. Polygamy is merely weird. Homosexuality is abnormal, aberrant and deviant.
Okay to that Freeper who told me that mormons where for gay scouts because of this in the Boy Scout Thread I believe you now!
Man I rember Rush on KCOP Channel 13 when he was fat
I hear TLC Sister wives may file lawsuit soon in Nevada
A Bi-Sexual marriage would require polygamy.
This is their goal. Step one: normalize sodomy. Step two: lower the age of consent. They are just one step away from their dream of legal man/boy sex.
But to a libtard, nothing in history matters until they arrived on the scene . . . unless it is convenient to push their agenda.
Liberals/progressives/communists/whatervertheyrecallingthemselves are primitives. There is no “yesterday” and there is no “tomorrow.” For these primitives there only exists the “now.” All that matters to these primitives is their wants; their want to eat, defecate, mate, and have WHAT THEY WANT NOW with no regard to the future (since there is no “future”).
This left=primitive meme also explains the “feel good” crap they put forth: They feel good NOW and the consequences of their actions don’t matter (no “future”), and cannot be reviewed for effectiveness (no “past”).
Living in the “now.”
And to replace the natural family with the state.
No you’re not the only one. I agree and “same sex marriage” advocates who oppose polygamy are the biggest hypocrites on this earth IMHO.
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