I agree with their reasoning that if marriage is no longer just between one man and one woman because of a nebulous ‘right to dignity’ then there is no legal argument left to justify criminalizing committed polygamous relationships among consenting adults.
The hypocrisy of the whole thing is that men have had mistresses and even second families forever. And it’s been accepted. Even President Grover Cleveland had a mistress and a second family and that was okay.
I remember a poly wife saying once (paraphrased): “If someone asks me who I am to him and I tell them I’m his mistress they’re okay with it. But if I say I’m his second wife they call the police.”
Funny, isn’t it, that it’s the committed relationship that causes problems, not the licentious and promiscuous relationship.
Adultery is "accepted" as in, accepted as human weakness and character failing. Tolerated to a certain extent, but considered illegitimate nonetheless. To take the same and legitimize it through a marriage license is a desecration of the holy covenant.
Thus beast.gov's seal of approval for sodomite "marriage" profanes and defiles the meaning of the holy covenant by forcing a perverted redefinition upon it.
The USSC's validation and defense of the lie shows us that the present government is illegitimate and given over to great delusion. It's no legitimate government that says bake the cake or be persecuted for holding fast to the truth.
Agreed. There's probably no legal way around this now that homosexual marriages have been approved. Apart from a massive seismic shift in our political culture, I see no way to amend the Constitution or to get rid of enough Supreme Court justices to overturn the underlying legal reasoning.
I hope I'm wrong.
In the meantime, it should be interesting to see how mainstream modern Mormons in Utah react to being forced to accept legal polygamy of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. There are reasons why this case started in Utah, and why the "family" involved had to leave the state out of fear of arrest.
I'm PINGing Hildy because if I remember correctly, the FCLDS is also an issue in her county in Arizona. Perhaps she has some insights on this from the perspective of her state where the legal battles may be different from those of Utah.