gay marriage is just step one towards the total destruction of marriage. If gay marriage becomes legal then there is no legal defence that can be brought to deny bigamy, polygamy, mother/daughter, father/son, brother/sister, et al.
In 17 states and the District of Columbia it is legal. Destroyed yet? Gays have been legally marrying in Massachusetts for a decade. Anyone marrying family members, animals or multiple people there? How long does it take?
the legal argument will be that those people are being denied their civil rights to marry and live with who they want. Gay marriage laws will be brought up as the precedent. It is a slippery slope. many of you refuse to acknowledge that reality, but it is there nonetheless.
No, the precedent is here:
Loving v Virginia (1967)
Zablocki v Wisconsin (1978)
Turner v Safley (1987)
And since those cases didn't bring about dogs and cats living together, why do you assume that because non familial consenting adult same sex couples are now marrying that we must slippery slope to such an inevitable end? Countries with marriage equality have not seen a significant rise in challenges to their bans on polygamy. I should also point out that countries that have legalized polygamy don't have marriage equality for gays.
Since we are a nation of laws, this will be decided on legal precedence, and all forms of marriage will become legal--------and the lawyers will be celebrating all the litigation to come when there is a divorce in a polygamous marriage, or an inheritence fight between two married brothers and their married sisters.
Its where you on the left are taking us---------------wake the **** up.
The legal precedent was decided in 1967, 78 and 87. No Fish,
siblings will not be able to legally marry. Polygamy...well, it's a true long shot looking at it from an oddsmaker perspective. I certainly wouldn't put any money on it when you look at the actual data...and there is centuries of data on polygamy. It was popular among the 1% back in the olden days.
It still is popular in some parts of the country...why haven't they slippery sloped to gay marriage?
The Big Question: What's the history of polygamy, and how serious a problem is it in Africa?
How common is it?
In 1998 the University of Wisconsin surveyed more than a thousand societies. Of these just 186 were monogamous. Some 453 had occasional polygyny and in 588 more it was quite common. Just four featured polyandry. Some anthropologists believe that polygamy has been the norm through human history. In 2003, New Scientist magazine suggested that, until 10,000 years ago, most children had been sired by comparatively few men. Variations in DNA, it said, showed that the distribution of X chromosomes suggested that a few men seem to have had greater input into the gene pool than the rest. By contrast most women seemed to get to pass on their genes. Humans, like their primate forefathers, it said, were at least "mildly polygynous".
Polygamy is very common in the animist and Muslim communities of West Africa. In Senegal, for example, nearly 47 per cent of marriages are said to feature multiple women. It is relatively high still in many Arab nations; among the Bedouin population of Israel it stands at about 30 per cent. According to The Salt Lake Tribune as many as 10,000 Mormon fundamentalists in 2005 lived in polygamous families.