It's Time to Legalize Polygamy

[Thomas]

Welcome to the exciting new world of the slippery slope. With
the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling this Friday legalizing same
sex marriage in all 50 states, social liberalism has achieved
one of its central goals. A right seemingly unthinkable two
decades ago has now been broadly applied to a whole new class of
citizens. Following on the rejection of interracial marriage
bans in the 20th Century, the Supreme Court decision clearly
shows that marriage should be a broadly applicable right—one
that forces the government to recognize, as Friday’s decision
said, a private couple’s “love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice
and family.”

The question presents itself: Where does the next advance come?
The answer is going to make nearly everyone uncomfortable: Now
that we’ve defined that love and devotion and family isn’t
driven by gender alone, why should it be limited to just two
individuals? The most natural advance next for marriage lies in
legalized polygamy—yet many of the same people who pressed for
marriage equality for gay couples oppose it.

This is not an abstract issue. In Chief Justice John Roberts’
dissenting opinion, he remarks, “It is striking how much of the
majority’s reasoning would apply with equal force to the claim
of a fundamental right to plural marriage.” As is often the case
with critics of polygamy, he neglects to mention why this is a
fate to be feared. Polygamy today stands as a taboo just as
strong as same-sex marriage was several decades ago—it’s
effectively only discussed as outdated jokes about Utah and
Mormons, who banned the practice over 120 years ago.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/06/gay-marriage-
decision-polygamy-119469.html#.VZLTBflVj38

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homophobia, the gay fear of being sexually natural.