With all the talk of legalizing SSM, this will be the next legal battleground... http://www.slate.com/articles/doubl...alize_polygamy_marriage_equality_for_all.html
If the argument is about the rights of consenting adults, then go full tilt. Incest, Polygamy, temporary marriage licenses, etc.
This post got me curious, I had no idea that so many states allow marriage between FIRST cousins. I always seen that as incest. http://www.cousincouples.com/?page=states
What a distraction. Who cares (no offense to you Loki) but the issue of the day is jobs thats it. Unless the world is literally going to end nothing else matters more.
Let it be. As Thump stated, as long as they are consenting adults, then why the fuck should I care what they do with their lives? It's not "redefining" as much as it being more consistent with the original definition of marriage.
I hear what you are saying TDK, there has been some positive momentum on jobs of late, see below from Politifact. I made the original post because in the legal world I keep hearing of multiple groups who are just waiting in the wings for SSM to be legal in the majority of states so they can push their agenda as well, as the song says, "the times, they are a' changin" Why Obama deserves some credit for the nation’s economic progress Gary Burtless, an economist with the Brookings Institution, rattled off several Obama initiatives that helped. Burtless cites things Obama did or supported before he was sworn in, including passage of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, and the selection of an economic team that was focused on rescuing a financial system in dire straits. "The emergency actions taken by the Fed, the Treasury, and the Congress in the fall of 2008 and winter and spring of 2009 (are) almost certainly the most important factors that kept a severe recession from metastasizing into a Great Depression," Burtless said. "President Obama deserves major credit for that." Burtless also credits Obama’s reappointment of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, the auto bailout and the economic stimulus, the $787 billion program of spending initiatives and tax cuts that Obama passed with the help of a Democratic Congress. "The president deserves full marks for pushing and getting those actions," he said. Those who say Obama deserves some credit offer a pretty stark alternative. "It's pretty hard to celebrate 7.9 percent unemployment or an economy that is 9 million jobs below its trend level -- but it could have been worse," said Dean Baker, co-director of the liberal Center for Economic and Policy Research. Bruce Bartlett, an economist who worked for the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations but who has recently clashed with conservatives, added that "it’s too easy to criticize Obama based on some theoretical ideal shaped by hindsight. The critical question, it seems to me, is whether Republican policies would have worked better. I believe there is no question that they would have worked much worse. The dominant Republican view seems to be that the government should have done nothing. The party view seems to be that all stimulus, fiscal or monetary, is bad, or at least worthless."
dunno intra-family marriage, polygamy, etc is a pretty pertinent issue with some folk bunch of fuckin heathens :smt043
lets not stop there....these religious zealots should back up the following: divorce should be illegal except due to adultery. the person who committs adultery must serve jail time premartial sex should be illegal. if you have sex before you are "officially" married then you are automatically married. (yep that is bibilical.)
You type that likes it's a bad thing. Betcha cheaters would think twice. And promiscuous peeps too. "Do I really wanna marry this person attached to this vagina/dick?"
My take on the biblical passages is that only a man can divorce his wife due to adultery. Lets not forget adultery also includes marrying a woman who is divorced.
Well, since the anti same-sex marriage advocates are biblically driven, they should be okay with this, shouldn't they? All of those guys had multiple wives, married their dead brothers' widows, etc.
