Ok, so now that the gay community is fighting for marraige rights, the Polygamists are starting to fight for their marraige rights as well.
I called it, anyone else not surprised?
2006-09-07 06:13:11 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Cora, havent the gays been fighting for a while now too. It's all coming to a head.
2006-09-07 06:16:38 · update #1
I guess its as they say "Give an inch and they will take a mile."
2006-09-07 06:16:23 · answer #1 · answered by longroad 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The polygamists have been fighting for their rights for decades. You may just be noticing now.
And the issues are entirely unrelated, because the laws in question are entirely unrelated. The arguments supporting same-sex marriage are utterly useless for polygamy, bestiality, or any of the others often mentioned. All the laws relating to marriage rights, spousal benefits, inheritance, community property, etc. -- all are written assuming the legal relationship includes is comprised of two adult humans.
Because husbands and wives have exactly the same rights and benefits under the law, gender doesn't matter under these current laws. Allowing same-sex marriage doesn't change anything in terms of how the laws work, since (aside from the actual forms) they are already gender-neutral. The same cannot be said for any other relationships that are not between two adults. So, there is no slippery slope, because the next step beyond same-sex marriage requires a huge rewrite of all the laws from the ground up. Not just reprinting the forms.
{EDIT to kaadbear} It is more than a right, it is a fundamental right recognized by the Supreme Court for 40 years. Loving v. Virginia (1967).
2006-09-07 13:15:50 · answer #2 · answered by coragryph 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The problem with polygamy is that it has been shown in studies to be psychologically harmful to the partners who are in the multiple. For instance, as is usually the case, the multiple wives suffer from psychological harm due to an improper balance of power in the marriage and are being treated not as human beings but more like property. We as a nation do not approve of human beings being treated like property, and civil marriage is a contract and marrying another individual would invalidate the first contract. Hence polygamy is and will remain outlawed because there is no rational civil argument for it.
Gay marriage on the other hand presents no civil problems, only religious ones. Since religious affairs are not the matters of the state, there are no problems with gay marriage. It has been shown that a working marriage has psychological and physical benefits for both partners as well as legal benefits and privileges gained. It would continue to be a contract between two consenting adults and thus hold to be valid as a form a marriage.
2006-09-07 13:23:21 · answer #3 · answered by azrael505 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You mean Bigamists! polygamists we're ok. But the Bigamist that belong to the Mormon church have had several wives!! the other day the goverment caught a man with 18 wifes! Can you really love 18 wifes?? Of course not! And HBO has a program about a bigamists with several wives and several kids!! HBO, suppossed to be a movie chanel!!!
2006-09-07 13:20:33 · answer #4 · answered by alfonso 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In 2003, a few months after the Lawrence v. Texas decsion, a debate was staged at Regent University. The debate was taped and it was aired on C-SPAN. One question that an audience member posed to the panel was: "What will be the future fallout of Lawrence v. Texas ......?"
This kind of thing is the fallout. Lots of people (including those to whom moral values are very important) starting to think that "anything goes" in courts.
2006-09-07 13:32:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If gays can now marry and polygamists can (soon) marry, when can a fat, introverted middle-age guy marry that cute ten year-old boy down the street? Don't they deserve to be happy, too? So when and where does it stop, liberals???
Family advocates fight to keep weirdos like gays from marrying because this is where it leads. The cries of "We just want to be happy like you" is a smokescreen for their real agenda of destroying the fabric of the American family and making all their wierd sexual proclivities "normal."
2006-09-07 13:21:55 · answer #6 · answered by christopher s 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not surprised at all,
I will be suing to marry my dog , I live in OREGON and it is OK here to Have Sex with Animals. So marring Animals will be next.
For the short time marriage was legal in S.F. I wrote to gov Arnold and wanted My marriage dissolved as it didn't mean anything any more. Arnold wrote back told me not to worry the Gay marriage crap wouldn't last and it hasn't and won't
2006-09-07 13:21:55 · answer #7 · answered by buzzy360comecme 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The last time I checked no one in this country has the right to get married. If I am wrong please let me know with proper sources. I believe that it is a privilege granted by the government, just like driving is.
2006-09-07 13:16:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
gays should be allowed to marry, imo.
it might cut down on promiscuous
sodomy which is a grave detriment
to public health and medical costs.
2006-09-07 13:36:58 · answer #9 · answered by redreverser 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Right.
2006-09-07 13:34:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋