Saturday, March 18, 2006

Pandora and Polygamy

Pandora and Polygamy:
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As Newsweek notes, these stirrings for the mainstreaming of polygamy (or, more accurately, polyamory) have their roots in the increasing legitimization of gay marriage. In an essay 10 years ago, I pointed out that it is utterly logical for polygamy rights to follow gay rights. After all, if traditional marriage is defined as the union of (1) two people of (2) opposite gender, and if, as advocates of gay marriage insist, the gender requirement is nothing but prejudice, exclusion and an arbitrary denial of one's autonomous choices in love, then the first requirement -- the number restriction (two and only two) -- is a similarly arbitrary, discriminatory and indefensible denial of individual choice.
This has to drive gay activist totally ape shit, you can’t arbitrarily decide which part of the definition of marriage is incorrect. If the opposite sex is part is erroneous, why not the number of participants.

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