I wouldn't have come across this article except for the fact that I'm a Family Research Council (FRC)reader---oh yes, they're the "hate group"--and so I was able to get Jillian Keenan's perspective on why social change shouldn't stop with same-sex marriage. Jillian Keenan is she who had the "courage" to write about her spanking fetish published in the paper of record. That's news. In this article, Keenan writes that legalized polygamy would be good for women, good for immigrants and good for shoring up our constitutional right to religious freedom.Keenan takes the following line to try to defend her enthusiasm for legalizing polygamy. Since heterosexual marriage has its flaws and two-parent families are no longer the norm for Americans anyway, why penalize those who want the choice of being married to multiple men or women. And, since we've already opened the door to everything else why not add legalized polygamy as well? As she says: "Divorce, remarriage, surrogate parents, extended relatives, and other diverse family arrangements mean families already come in all sizes—why not recognize that legally?" Ideology obviously trumps reason here. And it can also create strange bedfellows. Keenan favors legalized polygamy because she wants to defend the rights of her Mormon fundamentalist friends. I'm guessing she voted for Mitt Romney?
By her way of thinking, Keenan also keeps company with her opposition, those who argue that same-sex marriage will open the door to polygamy and other types of sexual relationships regarded as harmful to society. We're right!
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