In an attack against Bill O’Reilly the advocates of expanding marriage show their real bias against other forms of marriage.
Continuing a pattern of linking same-sex marriage to bestiality, O’Reilly claimed, on his radio show, that in the Netherlands, if “[y]ou want to marry a duck …you can do it over there.” He offered no evidence to support his claim.
They spend a whole article trying to put distance between gay marriage and other forms such as polygamy and bestiality. If they were really serious about diversity and ‘respecting’ all forms of loving relationships they wouldn’t have wasted their time with this pointless article. Instead they would have embraced any expansion that exhibited committed relationships.
There can only be two motives for this. One is that they are not as tolerant as they would like to claim. The other motive is that they really are for such expansions but won’t admit to it because it bring a backlash. That means they are lying to promote their agenda. Somehow I think they are lying.
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There is very little doubt that the legalization of gay marriage breaks down objections to other “arrangements.”
See the first third of “Big Love, from the set”
http://www.nationalreview.com/kurtz/kurtz200603130805.asp
The full version is somewhere, but I don’t recall where.
Posted on June 11th, 2006 at 4:11 pm
Actually the NRO piece looks self-contained but Kurtz did an apparently more recent similar piece that started with much of the Big Love material, but went on to desconstruct the Supreme Court decision in about 1878 that outlawed polygamy.
Posted on June 11th, 2006 at 4:13 pm
I don’t think that one can reasonably make an argument to exclude marriage between ANY two (or more) adults (brother/brother, sister/sister, mother/son, etc.) if one supports “gay marriage.” Bestiality may be a different case.
Posted on June 13th, 2006 at 7:23 pm
I agree, especially with the “or more” part. It would be hard to loosen the definition of marriage without including polygamy. How could we discriminate against those poor Mormons? (…speaking sarcastically, of course)
Posted on June 14th, 2006 at 6:24 am
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