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

Contents:

• FROM GAY MARRIAGE TO POLYGAMY?
• MEET THE BROWNS: GAY POLYAMORO TRIAD SPILLS THE TEA ON HOW TWO BEME THREE
• NO, POLYGAMY ISN’T THE NEXT GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE WAS ALWAYS LEADG TO POLYGAMY
• WHY SO FEW LBIANS AND GAYS MASTREAM POLY COMMUNY?
• GAY MARRIAGE AND POLYGAMY
• NEW MORMON POLICY ON GAY UPL ‘ANALOGO’ TO S POLYGAMY STANCE? Y AND NO
• 'TIGER KG': WHY THIS DOC ABOUT A GAY POLYGAMIST EXOTIC CAT BREER IS YOUR NEXT TE-CRIME OBSSN

FROM GAY MARRIAGE TO POLYGAMY?

Brandy and Julie take heart om the succs of the gay-marriage movement. Hodg tablished same-sex marriage as a nstutnal right, Chief Jtice John Roberts wrote a dissent argug that, if a system nyg marriage to gay and lbian upl reprented an asslt on their nstutnal rights, existg marriage rtrictns mt siarly “disrpect and subordate people who fd fulfillment polyamoro relatnships.

” He went on to emphasize that the prevalence of polygamy throughout history ma ls of a radil leap than same-sex gay activists, such as Evan Wolfson, who found Freedom to Marry, dismiss parisons between poly marriage and same-sex marriage as a “sre tactic. “The law should allow for the regnn of actual functnal adult faial relatnships, even if the parti have not formalized those relatnships, ” Josl parents are ls shockg than three partners—when Print Obama “evolved” on gay marriage, he ced the jtice enuntered by his dghters’ iends who had gay parents—but one flows om the other, and marriage rights often further the cln they aim to reflect. Gay marriage has creased acceptance of same-sex Izenson, Cal T., Aida Manduley, and Roo Khan near their home, Ulster County, New theorists have plaed that Obergefell valoriz the fay valu associated wh monogamo marriage and thereby means people who rist those valu.

”Andy talked about a watershed moment for gay rights, 1989—the se of Braschi v. In Andy’s view, the subsequent mpaign for gay marriage reprented a missed opportuny. “The gay-rights movement took that and said, ‘Actually, no, we’re jt gog to throw that out and try and get married.

MEET THE BROWNS: GAY POLYAMORO TRIAD SPILLS THE TEA ON HOW TWO BEME THREE

But three years later the Tenth Circu Court of Appeals led that, bee Utah did not actually prosecute polygamists unls there were other crim, the platiffs did not have standg, so the practice beme crimal Febary, 2020, the Bigamy Bill had the sponsorship of Derek Kchen, one of only six Democrats the Utah State Senate and s only openly gay member. They won, and the se led to the legalizatn of gay marriage the Tenth Circu and fluenced the Supreme Court’s cisn Obergefell, eight months later.

Movement and, particular, a lot of gay men really embrace polyamory, ” Kchen told me. Many Mormon polygamists were more than happy to make mon e wh the gay-marriage activists. ” So Derek Kchen was hidg about his sexualy even when he was the most visible gay person Utah.

NO, POLYGAMY ISN’T THE NEXT GAY MARRIAGE

’ ”Eventually, the mastream Mormon learship, whose anti-gay polici had creasgly drawn outrage Utah, nclud that was fightg a losg battle on polygamy, too. In this same perd, Utah has seen an upswg gay upl havg babi.

After the shootg at the Pulse night club, Orlando, 2016, one of them asked, “Do people hate like they hate gay people? Adams believ that the tablishment of gay marriage produced a backlash agast expand relatnship rights, and they enurage their clients to nsir other optns. Gay people fought, jtly, to be clud those rights.

GAY MARRIAGE WAS ALWAYS LEADG TO POLYGAMY

In addn to their hband, Adams is long-term relatnships wh two women and also has a boyiend; Adams has a five-year-old dghter wh their hband and has nsired parentg wh a gay male iend. ”Those who said that gay marriage wouldn’t lead to poly marriage often argued that beg gay is an tractable ndn and beg poly is a chosen life style. Helplsly gay people are therefore a protected tegory; electively poly people are not.

WHY SO FEW LBIANS AND GAYS MASTREAM POLY COMMUNY?

They have noticed that, if Zeke and David take Tavi out for a walk around their neighborhood, people ually assume that the two men are a married gay uple. After the Supreme Court cisn favor of gay marriage, nservative crics spotted sister wiv on the horizon.

But they should make the rt of the gay marriage lg, there was nothg to prevent gays om livg together, havg sex and raisg children like married straights. One is that polygamo weddgs, unlike gay on, actually harm other people — by rcg the number of potential mat, doomg some to sglehood. It may also be argued that polygamists, unlike gays, don't warrant nstutnal protectn bee they haven't suffered relentls arguments may be enough to keep the Supreme Court om ncludg that the Constutn protects polygamy.

The Tallahassee, FL and Mansfield, OH transplants are one of many Black gay polyamoro triads or “throupl” Atlanta who are fdg and creatg healthy romantic partnerships outsi of the tradnal two-person monogamo relatnship mol.

GAY MARRIAGE AND POLYGAMY

I am a gay marriage advote. Opposg the legalizatn of plural marriage should not be my burn, bee gay marriage and polygamy are oppos, not equivalents. " If there's a bloody shirt to wave the gay-marriage bate, this is .

NEW MORMON POLICY ON GAY UPL ‘ANALOGO’ TO S POLYGAMY STANCE? Y AND NO

When you straights give yourselv the right to marry two people or your brother or your dog or a toaster, we gay people should get that right, too.

Hodg that gay marriage is a fundamental right, so polygamy mt also be a fundamental right. Unlike gay marriage, polygamy is not a new ia. Blandly assertg that there's no good reason to oppose polygamy once gay upl n marry mak no more sense than sayg there's no reason to oppose date rape or securi d once gay upl n marry.

The trouble that gay-marriage opponents kept nng to was that they uld not surmount this very low bar, bee they uldn't expla how preventg gay upl om marryg served any of the state's claimed goals. Nor uld they show any plsible harm om gay marriage.

'TIGER KG': WHY THIS DOC ABOUT A GAY POLYGAMIST EXOTIC CAT BREER IS YOUR NEXT TE-CRIME OBSSN

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. Gay-marriage advot have never mand the right to marry everyone (multiple partners), or anyone (our parents), or anythg (our dog or a toaster).