With friends like these...
Gay marriage proponents need to visit truthbearer.org and beg the fundametalist "Christian Polygamists" to stop, uh, helping out with the same-sex cause. According the article entitled Polygamists Unite! in this week's Newsweek, polygamists are using the advances made by gay marriage supporters to draw their own line in the sand.
"Polygamy rights is the next civil-rights battle," says Mark Henkel, who, as founder of the Christian evangelical polygamy organization TruthBearer.org, is at the forefront of the movement. His argument: if Heather can have two mommies, she should also be able to have two mommies and a daddy.
This is one of those times when I just want to jump up and down and yell "I told you so!" at the top of my voice. We mainstream opponents of gay marriage called this one from the beginning. Once you redefine marriage, you open the door for the legalization of polygamy and possibly a host of other sexual (or platonic) alliances.
As a side note: Truthbearer.org makes the following claim:
Polygamy is in the Bible. Polygamy is found throughout history. These facts prove that marriage's definition includes plural marriage. Polygyny is a far older traditional marriage than anti-polygamy.
I returned to my Old Testament to verify this and was unable to find the account where God created our first parents, Adam and Eve and Susan and Stephanie and....
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And of course he didn't create "Adam and Steve" or "Eve and Evelyn" either. You can search the good book forever and find that God didn't condone such sexual deviate activities. Can anyone say Sodom and Gomara? And since the devil has influenced us through the ages, it's no surprise that he is pulling the same caper all over again in our time.
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