With “Gay Marriage” Comes Polygamy
April 29, 2015
ANDREW KURTZ writes:
I was watching the nightly news yesterday and its report on the oral arguments before the Supreme Court regarding “gay marriage.” As most people know, the Court will release its opinion in two months. It is expected to be a 5-4 decision, with Justice Kennedy the swing vote.
I have a message to the judges, and all those who support “gay marriage.”
If you’re for “gay marriage,” then you have to be for polygamy.
If the Court okays “gay marriage” then it should okay polygamy with the same ruling and for the same reasons. If you favor “gay marriage” then you support the main demand of the LGBT community. That includes the “B” part: bisexuals.
Suppose three bisexuals have been living together for a few years. (It doesn’t matter if it’s one man and two women or vice-versa, or even all three of the same sex). They are all in love with each other equally, there are no favorites. There are no other outside affairs. They are the perfect … triple! And they have decided they want to marry one another, a three-way polygamous marriage (the possibility of conceiving children naturally may be there.)
But you tell them: sorry, you can’t, marriage by law is monogamous, couples only. And you appeal to tradition, because that’s the way marriage has always been in America.
The bisexual triple then gets very upset. “How dare you deny us. You are discriminating against us, and you said you supported the LGBT community! You are oppressing us. You are forcing us to break up. You are denying half of our sexuality, our humanity. You are a bigot, a polyphobe!”
So now the “gay marriage” supporter is stuck with no way out, he either now has to support the polygamous marriage, or be forced to deny it by using the same reasons (an appeal to the current law and to tradition) as those who are against “gay marriage” make. In order to deny it, he would have to take the same side as those he currently claims to be bigots and homophobes. I can’t see this happening for good liberals.
And I’m sure, if “gay marriage” becomes the law of the land via the Supreme Court, bisexuals will make this very demand, using this very argument sooner rather than later. There is no way all bisexuals will meekly submit to monogamy.
Laura writes:
Polygamy is far less radical than “gay marriage.” It’s nothing new. There is a long tradition behind it, which is another argument proponents can make. And if Americans can so quickly adjust to the concept of marriage between two women or two men, they can certainly adjust to the idea of group marriages. An additional argument that will be made is that these group marriages provide more attention for the children.
