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DaneL1 year, 5 months ago

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Can use the same argument for poligamy.

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  Dicax_Maximus1 year, 5 months ago
  
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  DaneL - If it's consensual, why should that be a problem (well, appart from the husband that is, it's hard enough dealing with ONE wife !!!!) ;-)
  
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    Mdiar1 year, 5 months ago
    
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    Exactly.
    
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  hamy1 year, 5 months ago
  
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  But poligamy is not a right. No one has the right to marry more than one person. That isn't what's at debate. The question is: How does this affect you in any way shape or form? How does someone else being able to get married affect your marriage?
  
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    xlegultx1 year, 5 months ago
    
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    "No one has the right to marry more than one person."
    Says a certain religion.
    This religion also says no gay marriages.
    
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      david_nwpa1 year, 5 months ago
      
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      Except that religion is NOT a requirement of marriage. A heterosexual atheist couple can wed before a justice of the peace, and no one's religious rights are infringed. Gay couples could wed before a Justice of the Peace, a ship's captain or a religious person who does not object to such a wedding. Your religious rights should not trump those of other people! After all, in the eyes of the law, marriage is a civil institution.
      
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        hamy1 year, 5 months ago
        
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        Republicans are the reason we are having this debate right now. If Bush and Cheney hadn't politicized the issue in the first place to scare right wing conservatives into voting for him, this wouldn't be happening.
        But he did. And the problem is that I would never EVER vote for someone who would associate with people who hate as much as the republican party. I would never EVER vote my own rights away.
        I am not a democrat or a republican. I could care less about either of their ideology. I look out for myself.
        My rights are important to me. The ideas associated with political parties are not.
        
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      hamy1 year, 5 months ago
      
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      No. That is the law. The law says that polygamy is not allowed in this country. Polygamists aren't born. They are not a protected class of citizen under the fair housing or equal treatment policies of this country.
      This isn't about religion. It has nothing to do with religion. I could care less if I can't get married in a church. I just want the rights afforded every other tax paying citizen.
      That or I pay lower taxes. You decide.
      
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  mark-stevens1 year, 5 months ago
  
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  DaneL is right... if gay marriage is okay than poligamy should be. Unlike that Texas group, it should at least involve adults only!!
  
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    jordan111 year, 5 months ago
    
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    No, he isn't correct. The right of marriage already exists. The right of polygamy does not exist, so no right is being denied.
    
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    Natureboy1 year, 5 months ago
    
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    Polygamy and polyandry too - except that when you find polygamy, it is often coerced, and by dessicated old coots that likely cannot satisfy even one women, let alone several women a fraction of their age. This is the problem with what the Mormon nutboy cults are doing, it is coerced.
    
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  mark-stevens1 year, 5 months ago
  
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  Seeing black ministers declaring that gay marriage is unnatural is ironic, as that is what they use to say about inter-racial marriages!
  
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  RNR521 year, 5 months ago
  
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  There is no logical reason to oppose marriage between two consenting adults of either gender. Polygamy or polyandry can get complicated with rights of spouses, support of children, finances, property rights, etc. The more parties involved the more legally complicated the arrangement becomes. Marriage is a contractual agreement and contracts are complicated enough with just two parties. Energies can be spent better elsewhere than opposing "gay marriage."
  
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