Quote:It is absolutely a slippery slope. 


 

Next will be changing the age restrictions, and then inter-species marriages.

 

We already changed the age restrictions.  They've been going up.


 

 

Quote:That "ridiculous thing that no one wants" was gay marriage. Twenty years ago no one, including gays, wanted gay marriage. It was too heteronormative for the queer culture. Then you get lawsuits and some judges decide that marriage isn't what it's always been in our society. Polygamy has a much more legitimate history, and its highly hypocritical for some one to say I can change the institution to suit my desire but you cannot do the same to suit yours. And no one voted on gay marriage to my knowledge, did we have a referendum that I missed? Seems to me that the activist judiciary struck down the will of the people in permitting gay marriage rather than expressing that new desire through the legislature as is proper. Why would you think we'll have a say in the next cultural perversion to crop up?

The problem is -- polygamy is already legal in parts of the world where gay marriage is not.  (And will likely never be).  So this isn't a case of 'the next thing up'.  Gay Marriage is a separate issue altogether.  One that would pop up eventually whether we allow gay marriage or we don't.  There was nothing stopping polygamy from being the next thing up instead of gay marriage.  

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