No, Polygamy Isn’t the Next Gay Marriage - POLITICO Magaze

Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE WAS ALWAYS LEADG TO POLYGAMY
• GAY MARRIAGE AND POLYGAMY
• WHY SO FEW LBIANS AND GAYS MASTREAM POLY COMMUNY?
• NO, POLYGAMY ISN’T THE NEXT GAY MARRIAGE
• HOW GAY MARRIAGE PAV THE WAY FOR LEGAL POLYGAMY
• FROM GAY MARRIAGE TO POLYGAMY?
• BT GAY POLYAMORO ROMANCE
• MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

GAY MARRIAGE WAS ALWAYS LEADG TO POLYGAMY

The most natural advance next for marriage li legalized polygamy—yet many of the same people who prsed for marriage equaly for gay upl oppose . They’re trapped, I spect, prr opposn that they voiced om a standpot of polil pragmatism orr to advance the e of gay marriage. They choose to si-step the issue by sistg that gay marriage wouldn’t lead to polygamy.

To advote for polygamy durg the marriage equaly fight may have seemed to nfirm the socially nservative narrative, that gay marriage gured a wholale llapse tradnal valu. I thk ’s time to turn the qutn back on them: given what you know about the advancement of human rights, are you sure your opposn to group marriage won’t sound as anachronistic as opposn to gay marriage sounds to you now?

GAY MARRIAGE AND POLYGAMY

And sce we have sisted that there is no legimate way to oppose gay marriage and rpect gay love, how n you oppose group marriage and rpect group love?

This, of urse, is somethg we were promised would never happen when gay marriage beme a nstutnal right. Wrg Poli 2015, Jonathan Rch said, “There might nceivably (although not likely) be a se for takg the trouble to do all that msy and nfg rewirg if the moral claim of polygamy were remotely as strong as to the moral claim of gay marriage. There are many more exampl, and what was clear then and is playg out now is that the arguments suggtg gay marriage would not lead to polygamy simply make no sense.

WHY SO FEW LBIANS AND GAYS MASTREAM POLY COMMUNY?

Jt like the fallac claims that tearg down Conferate monuments would not lead to attacks on Gee Washgton and Thomas Jefferson, the pla logic of gay marriage always poted the directn of polygamy.

NO, POLYGAMY ISN’T THE NEXT GAY MARRIAGE

Both Rch and Young ma moral claims their arguments as to why polygamy would not flow om gay marriage. How is a moral argument agast polygamy any different om a moral argument agast gay marriage? But also exists wh straight and gay marriag.

Now that the ncept of marriage has been turned to a malleable plastic, how n crics of polygamy who champned gay marriage say wh a straight face that nsentg adults should be barred om the practice? And is somethg we will accept, jt as we have accepted gay marriage. Cathy YoungGay MarriageJonathan RchpolygamyProgrsivismUtah.

Do you support the ncept of gay marriage? The battle for gay marriage, if succsful, will naturally give rise to other mory groups fightg for their own refn of marriage.

HOW GAY MARRIAGE PAV THE WAY FOR LEGAL POLYGAMY

Enlightened people who support gay marriage should beg searchg their nscience for an hont answer to the qutn: if is acceptable for two gay people to marry, why shouldn't be acceptable for three (or more) people -- of any sex -- to be married? He sums up the argument nicely:"In an say 10 years ago, I poted out that is utterly logil for polygamy rights to follow gay rights. After all, if tradnal marriage is fed as the unn of (1) two people of (2) oppose genr, and if, as advot of gay marriage sist, the genr requirement is nothg but prejudice, excln and an arbrary nial of one's tonomo choic love, then the first requirement -- the number rtrictn (two and only two) -- is a siarly arbrary, discrimatory and fensible nial of dividual choice.

"He go on to pot out an tertg velopment:"This le of argument mak gay activists fur. "But Krthammer ends up supportg both gay marriage and polygamy:"Call me agnostic.

FROM GAY MARRIAGE TO POLYGAMY?

Although gay marriage is growg acceptance and support, polygamy is only acceptable to a ty agment of Amerins. What's strange about this is that while gay marriage is opposed on relig grounds by many, the same argument simply nnot be ma about polygamy.

Polygamy, unlike gay marriage, has a long pedigree Judaism, Christiany, and Islam.

BT GAY POLYAMORO ROMANCE

My pot is, there is a se to be ma today that there are people of fah more than one relign who believe the practice is sanctned by holy ncept of gay marriage didn't have that gog for , but has ma huge roads to acceptance by mastream Ameri which polygamy hasn't (yet).

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

Now, mt be admted that gay marriage is still a hugely divisive issue self, and to date has lost almost every popular vote on the issue (all the "fense of marriage" ballot iativ); and furthermore has ed a feral law to be passed (the "Defense of Marriage Act") by Congrs which will one day undoubtedly be held up by law stunts as a blatantly unnstutnal example of a "bad lawmakg" (much as we view miscegenatn laws today), sce so obvly was passed and signed due to what Tocqueville lled "the tyranny of the majory.