ACLU Now Defends Polygamy...

[Bonnie]

By James L. Lambert
June 24, 2005

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AgapePress) - In comments at an Ivy League school, the president of the American Civil Liberties Union has indicated that among the "fundamental rights" of people is the right to polygamous relationships -- and that the ACLU has defended and will continue to defend that right.

In a little-reported speech offered at Yale University earlier this year, ACLU president Nadine Strossen stated that her organization has "defended the right of individuals to engage in polygamy." Yale Daily News says Strossen was responding to a "student's question about gay marriage, bigamy, and polygamy." She continued, saying that her legal organization "defend the freedom of choice for mature, consenting individuals," making the ACLU "the guardian of liberty ... defend[ing] the fundamental rights of all people."

The ACLU's newly revealed defense of polygamy may weaken the pro-homosexual argument for changing the traditional definition of marriage. Proponents of same-sex "marriage" have long insisted that their effort to include homosexual couples in that definition would only be that. However, conservative and traditional marriage advocates predict "other shoes will drop" if homosexual marriage is legalized -- perhaps including attempts to legalize polygamy and to changed current legal definitions of child-adult relationships.


Crawford Broadcasting radio talk-show host Paul McGuire concurs. He says in his opinion, the ACLU "has declared legal war on the traditional family."

"Now the ACLU is defending polygamy," he continues, in response to Strossen's comments. "You know, there are male and female lawyers who wake up in the morning and are actually proud of being ACLU lawyers. But I think the majority of Americans view ACLU lawyers as people who hate America and who want to destroy all Judeo-Christian values and beliefs."

McGuire summarizes by saying that Strossen's organization seems "to only defend things that tear down the fabric of society."

National Review correspondent Ramesh Ponnuru provides some additional insight. "It could be that the ACLU has defended a right for people to set up households in this way without necessarily fighting for governmental recognition of polygamous 'marriages,'" he says.

"Even if so," Ponnuru concludes, "it is hard to see how the ACLU, on its own principles, could stop short of demanding a change to the marriage laws to allow for polygamy."

Strossen has been president of the ACLU since 1991. She is also an acting professor of law at New York Law School and the author of the book, Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex & the Fight for Women's Rights (Scriber).

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[GotZoom]

"The ACLU's newly revealed defense of polygamy may weaken the pro-homosexual argument for changing the traditional definition of marriage. Proponents of same-sex "marriage" have long insisted that their effort to include homosexual couples in that definition would only be that. However, conservative and traditional marriage advocates predict "other shoes will drop" if homosexual marriage is legalized -- perhaps including attempts to legalize polygamy and to changed current legal definitions of child-adult relationships."

In this case...GO ACLU!!!

 

[rtwngAvngr]

This is in preparation for AmerAbia.

 

[Big Blue Machin]

Wait, Polygamy is when many people are married to each other. Isn't it?

 

[Bonnie]

"The ACLU's newly revealed defense of polygamy may weaken the pro-homosexual argument for changing the traditional definition of marriage. Proponents of same-sex "marriage" have long insisted that their effort to include homosexual couples in that definition would only be that. However, conservative and traditional marriage advocates predict "other shoes will drop" if homosexual marriage is legalized -- perhaps including attempts to legalize polygamy and to changed current legal definitions of child-adult relationships."

In this case...GO ACLU!!!

Possibly the ACLU didn't think this one thru?? :teeth:

 

[GotZoom]

Possibly the ACLU didn't think this one thru?? :teeth:

Do they ever?

 

[Bonnie]

Wait, Polygamy is when many people are married to each other. Isn't it?

Well one man and many women which is illegal in every state but one,and even that state has recently stopped looking the other way on this.

 

[Big Blue Machin]

Polygamy is so stupid.

 

[archangel]

Well one man and many women which is illegal in every state but one,and even that state has recently stopped looking the other way on this.

I thought they repealed that law...may be wrong...but I really thought they repealed the law from the 19th century!

 

[dmp]

it would give me the ability to propose to Bonnie...so it's all good.

 

[Bonnie]

it would give me the ability to propose to Bonnie...so it's all good.

LOL Darin your wife would kabong you over the head with a skillet..........
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[Nienna]

This from a woman who believes pornography is about freedom and dignity for women. I just feel sorry for some people. Cut off their noses to spite their faces.

 

[ScreamingEagle]

This is in preparation for AmerAbia.

But not if the ACLU gets their way and makes us recognize bisexual marriage...somehow I can't see an ACLUArabia combination.

 

[insein]

Didnt we discuss this with the whole gay marriage thing and all the defenders of gay marriage said something like "Oh thats ridiculous. Polygamy isnt the same as gay marriage."

Guarantee within a year, ACLU will fight for a guys right to marry his dog. From their they push their fight for NAMBLA further and fight for the right for a man to marry a young boy.

ACLU would have been hung in the old west. Every last one of them.