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Since gay marriage is here, it is time to allow heterosexual men to have multiple wives? Will America fight to allow men to have more then one wife since we marching? I mean as a straight man my rights are being denied.
Let's allow anyone to marry whoever they want, even if Grandpa wants to marry his 18 year old granddaughter. That way he can put his property into joint tenancy and when he dies his multimillion estate will bypass inheritance taxes. Hey, anything to beat the tax man.
The slippery slope from from same sex marriage to polygamy does not hold any water, it never has.
If you look objectively at marriage laws and benefits it's very clearly designed for binding TWO people as family with all the benefits and obligations of next of kin status. Only two, no more, no less, the gender of those two people is not legally relevant. Based on the constitution, we should not deny a same sex couple access to these clearly defined rights that are in existence for all other couples.
Gay marriage will not create any obligation to create an entirely new set of marriage rights for polygamous unions, adding polygamy into the mix would require changing the existing laws, same sex marriage does not (ignoring all the DOMA nonsense that was just an attempt to make discrimination legal) and coming up with new provisions for additional spouses such as who makes ultimate life and death decisions, (can you imagine the lawsuits if spouses disagree?) tax law, SS benefits, healthcare benefits, and childcare decisions would be all seriously affected.
Slippery slope supporters are too dense to realize the top of the slippery slope is heterosexual marriage, thus we must ban that to stop anything else stemming from it.
^^call it what it is-homosexual marriage and heterosexual marriage. Do not hide behind euphemisms. If it is natural and normal there is no need to hide.
Gay is something Fred and Barney did around Bedrock not Brokeback Mountain.
Fred and Barney were married (the normal way, to women) and were regular men. Don't try to twist cartoon characters to something sick.
We've been working towards that goal for some time now.
I can't think of a valid argument for why we should allow gay marriage but not allow polygamy. If marriage is now about partnering with anyone you love, who are we to tell people how many someone's they can love?
There may be compelling reasons to outlaw at least male + wives polygamy. In US locales where that is practiced, like Colorado City AZ, it becomes a tremendous burden on government as the male is not able to support all the children that are produced (women don't work outside of the home).
Why would you assume that the multiples wouldn't work outside the home?
LOL @ the "get government out of marriage" argument - the last refuge of anti-gay marriage dead-enders.
"We don't want to share so destroy it all!"
Too bad your great idea about "getting government out of marriage" was never a serious idea until the gays came along looking to gain equal access to what is rightfully theirs as free tax paying citizens, huh?
You guys couldn't be more transparent if you tried.
Am I supposed to not notice homosexuals want to marry members of their own sex because they believe the stigma of being gay will be removed once the state implies homosexuality is equal to heterosexuality by enshrining same-sex unions with marital legalese?
Did someone say "transparent"?
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