I'm a "bigot on the left" and I don't give a **** who you marry or how many people you marry as long as they are of legal age and carry human DNA. It's none of my business if one of you hicks from Mississippi want to marry your sister-aunt. It's the southern conservative states and Mormon strongholds (also conservative) where cousin ****ing, animal ****ing and polygamy occur the most anyway, so consider it a win for the south.
Well unlike gay marriage, which is supported by the majority of Americans and most Americans know a gay person, polygamy is a uniquely conservative Christian issue.
Along with incestuous relationships, and relations between humans and animals, these are unique family set-ups that mostly apply to conservatives in the "car on the lawn states." Most Americans don't know on a personal level incestuous or polygamous couples, therefore the fight for their rights won't be in the forefront of American politics.
Since it is a uniquely conservative issue and phenomenon, conservatives will have to chalk up the arguments for pro-incest and pro-polygamous marriages. You can start with the OT, which is a unique selling point among our nations most religious and might win you sympathy in the courts.
You are both wrong. this is neither a Christian nor a southern/Utah thing. Poly, in all its many forms cross all the boundaries and is practiced by Christians, pagans, Jews, Muslims and atheists alike. It is across the country and around the world. It is one wife with her husbands and multiple wives and husbands as well as the stereotypical husband with his wives (which is polygyny not polygamy). Look at sites like
Loving More,
Polyamory Society, and
alt.Polyamory to see that this is nowhere near limited to the FLDS nor the Muslims. Nor is it limited to, as I pointed out, men having multiple wives or any geographic region.
that is discrimination I thought you hated discrimination.
I don't see how removing restrictions equates to discrimination. Could you explain that?
Now the Mormons can return to their everlasting covenant of polygamy, which was outlawed on the condition of Utah statehood.
They never really left it, they just stopped applying for the legal status. I'm living in a poly family right now and we don't have legal status nor can the government come after us because of it.
Why not. How about marrying your horse?
When your horse can communicate intelligently enough to give consent then yes you can marry your horse.
So that's what marriage is all about? It's just about a bunch of legal "benefits"? Then why was everyone so opposed to civil unions?
Because the civil unions were not getting all the same benefits nor carry the same legal weight as marriage in most cases. While there was a small amount that would settle for nothing less than the word itself, most of the LBGT community would have been fine as long as the only difference was literally a word.
Typically polygamous societies favor the wealthy. Imagine a society in which Donald Trump is married to 5000 models and Miss America contestants, while lower-income young men typically go unmarried.
Again with the misconceptions. You are referring to polygyny and yes that is what the FLDS are practicing exclusively. Same for ME Muslims. But the rest of us polys are not so limited. We have our polyandry and polygamy families. I'm in one with a husband and two wives.
And maybe it oughtn't to be protected because it so often results in the abuse of women.
Another misconception that results from the excessive media coverage of the FDLS. The question that needs to be asked is would a given man in a polygynous marriage abusing his wives also be abusing his one wife were he monogamous? And given the number of abusive monogamous men out there, it is a correlation/causation fallacy to associate polygamy to abuse.
While I do not argue against same sex marriage.....
Not all homosexual individuals were "born that way". And, as many in the gay rights activism groups would agree, the federal government has no business attempting to determine whether one was "born that way" or if they "chose to be that way".
With that said there are some of us who do feel that we were "born that way". Our natural instinct is towards poly. Others have a natural instinct towards monogamy, even if it is serial monogamy. And then there are those who can be in a monogamous relationship of a poly one and be fine with it.