Posted on 06/27/2013 11:47:14 AM PDT by Mozilla
SALT LAKE CITY — Members of a Utah polygamist family lauded the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Wednesday to strike down a provision in the federal Defense of Marriage Act, saying it's a step toward changing perceptions of people like them as "second-class citizens."
Joe Darger, who wrote a book with his three wives entitled "Love Times Three: Our True Story of a Polygamous Marriage," said he and his family are celebrating the victory for gay marriage after the high court ruled that legally married same-sex couples should get the same federal benefits as heterosexual couples. In the majority opinion, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote that DOMA effectively made a subset of state-sanctioned marriages unequal.
Darger speculated the ruling could help other people in plural marriages, including the Brown family, which is suing to challenge a Utah law making bigamy a third-degree felony.
The case of the Browns, who star in the TLC reality TV show "Sister Wives," is pending before Judge Clark Waddoups. Darger said Waddoups may have been waiting on the DOMA ruling before stepping out on the polygamy case.
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Yep!
You’re going to have polygamy now.. and after that people will begin marrying their animals, etc.
Love is love right Obummer?
No, no, no. Polygamy is completely different. /sarc
After all, polygamy is between two (or more) consenting adults. 2+ is okay in the car pool lane, why not in the bedroon. /more sarc
Polygamy makes more sense than homosexual marriage, so long as it’s equal...LOL.
I’m thinking perhaps I can have 5 or 6 husbands?
Wait.
New Prophecy Alert.
Elder will announce plural marriage is again sanctioned by the LDS.
Now I question your sanity? :)
In related news...
Gay lobby’s next target: Benefits in all 50 states
http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/308085-gay-lobbys-next-target-benefits-in-all-50-states
And just think of what will happen to bene packages when polygamy is made legal!
Yeah, I have yet to fathom why liberal humanists believe, on the one hand, that they are the most enlightened humans ever to exist and can redefine things at a whim based on their superior intellect and enlightenment,
but no one in the future will be more enlightened and possibly re-define things further, once the moorings are cut loose.
“2+ is okay in the car pool lane, why not in the bedroon. /more sarc”
So two or less would be a moving violation? LOL!
I believe legalization of polygamy is still a long way off. Those of us who oppose polygamy feel we dodged a polygamy bullet last November. Had Romney won, polygamy would have received a huge boost.
The ‘B’ in LGBT is the camel’s nose under the tent for plural marriage.
If bisexuality is ‘natural’ and a protected sexual identity/gender, how can a ‘bi’ who loves both a man and a woman be prevented legally from marrying both?
There is NO legitimate argument against plural marriage once same-sex marriage is legalized.
Marriage will come to mean anything and everything...which effectively makes it mean nothing. THAT is the goal.
Lands, I’d rather sanction polygamy than same-sex marriage.
I want to marry my Festivus Pole.
Serenity Now!
The Muslims look upon this as a victory, too, so their four-wife limit can pass muster now in states like Michigan.
LOL.
A little sarcasm here and there.
:)
READ Kennedy's opinion. The majority finds an Equal Protection violation arising from denying a class of people membership in an institution. Their sole class identification is that their "marriages" don't fit the definition of the law.
How can the court possibly rule polygamy is any different based on that reasoning?
I’m waiting for a gay couple to attempt to get married in a mosque.
“I believe legalization of polygamy is still a long way off. Those of us who oppose polygamy feel we dodged a polygamy bullet last November. Had Romney won, polygamy would have received a huge boost.”
Au contraire, grasshopper...normally since Mormons are (supposedly) for it, it would naturally be fought tooth and ail against by all good liberals. However, muslims are for it, and the liberals will bend over backwards to give muslims what they want.
I agree. We have a one party system. Of all the people we could have had up against Obama. We had a guy, in Romney, whose religion supported polygamy. And he was in support of gay rights because Romney was governor when gay marriage was granted in the state of Massachusetts. Romney was and is pretty bad and there is no way to sugar coat it.
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