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One more point about Gay Marriage and its inevitable role as a conduit to no marriage standards (polygamy, etc.) whatsoever:

The argument for gay marriage is deceptively promoted as one for “equal protection,” but that’s not really what it is. “Equal protection,” as provided for in the Constitution, means judging all people by one standard. As far as that goes, Gays currently have the exact same standard of marriage required of them as is required of everyone else: that you marry someone of the opposite sex. Now, obviously, that is not what gay people would prefer, but that’s a whole different issue than “equal protection.” They are arguing in favor of gay discrimination: that the law change itself to accomodate a preference held by a tiny minority. Once that standard is set — that groups can define marriage according to their own preferences, rather than one non-discriminatory rule for all mariage — what is the argument against letting one man marry two or more women, or vice versa, or one man marrying his brother or sister, or both? It’s not “Homophobia” to raise this question; it’s just legally relevant. Now you may decide that these people should be free to do any of these things (and I somewhat concur, insofar as I think states should be able to decide these matter legislatively as community standards. The same goes for sodomy laws, one of which was recently ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court and polygamists in Utah are already using that precedent to argue that their lifestyle — private sexual conduct between adults — is Constitutional), but you can’t ignore or dismiss the very real connection between this movement and that eventuality.

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