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Or you can go the sanctity of marriage route. In that case I'm pretty sure The Bible makes it perfectly clear that gays should not be allowed to marry at any cost and we should just forgive adulters. I mean...its not like the "sin" of adultery was written in stone or anything like that...I think. Sorry, I always get confused which particular religious doctrine we are imposing on the population.
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Because married gays will sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids.
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promises, promises.
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I've always wondered why people think that the only thing stopping the polygamists is that it's illegal.
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Obviously, having three wives at the same time is wrong. If you want to have three wives, you have to do what Gingrich did and dump them one at a time.
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It's called serial monogamy
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Makes some feel uncomfortable
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Makes some feel uncomfortable
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Frankly, I think it’s plausible that Jesus was gay.
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Nearly done.
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I'm not sure of the connection - where polygamy comes in to it - anyway.
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This polygamy question is interesting to me.
I support gay marriage. I think it's ridiculous that the government would let some consenting adults enter into a legal contract but not others. But I oppose polygamy, because everything I've heard says that, in practice, it is bad for women and children. Basically, it's only good for men rich enough to take on several wives. And those wives live in virtual poverty. So how do I, from a legal standpoint, embrace gay marriage and oppose polygamy? How can I say that adults can only enter into a contract with one adult and not more than one? If I'm entering into other contracts, I can do so with multiple people. I can divide my plot of land into smaller plots and sell them to multiple buyers. I can go into business with a bunch of friends and create one partnership with all of them. The government recognizes those contracts. If marriage is opened up to gays because they are consenting adults with equal rights, why wouldn't marriage be opened up to all consenting adults, including polygamists? |
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reductio ad absurda or ponzi scheme is the argument.
In a finite population, if some males have multiple spouses then other males are lacking. In small polygamous communities, such boys are driven out by one means or another. |
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The second approach is to step back and ask why the government should recognize marriage in the first place. Marriage is a contract that tends to make couples more stable and more likely to invest, bettering society. As long as a certain type of marriage does that, it should be legal. Polygamy and marriage of non-humans doesn't have the incentive to invest and stabilize, therefore it should be treated differently. I prefer this way since it is more objective.
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Franklin Pierce
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Good point. I just wanted to cover the entire slippery slope argument.
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