Bazooka wrote:subgenius wrote:Is polygamy prohibited by the US Constitution?
Does the Federal Government have the right/ability to prohibit polygamy?
If the Fed cannot declare marriage as between a man and woman, then they certainly may not limit the quantity....and for that matter, by what law can they prevent a man from marrying a footstool?
Here's the problem, 'marriage' is a process for gaining a piece of paper that grants people legal access to certain things that people without that piece of paper cannot get. That's it, that's all 'marriage' really is.
not true.
Bazooka wrote:If a man wants to cohabit with another man and exist as a betrothed couple, they can.
If a man wants to cohabit with several women at the same time and exist as a betrothed polygamous group, they can.
If a man wants to cohabit with a footstool and exist as a betrothed couple, well, that can happen now also.
thus degenerating the entire concept. Legal access not only includes but it necessarily must exclude...and currently there is no logical basis for the latter...thus making the entire exercise meaningless.
Bazooka wrote:So, the Mormon agenda is about stopping access to legal rights for gay couples (I think they frown on furniturcest as well) as they believe God doesn't want them to have those rights. (If God didn't want to allow people to be homosexual He wouldn't have created same sex attraction).
interesting how people in your LLC always seem to rely on the "well then why did God.....?"
a seemingly obtuse disregard for the doctrine of agency.
By your argument, murder is ordained of God and therefore it is futile to consider it illegal.
Bazooka wrote:Now the Mormon Church has had its ass kicked on Prop 8, including a massive negative reaction from it's income stream, it has capitulated on its strategy of fighting against same sex legislation and is now treading a softer, inclusionary style of strategy aimed at keeping homosexuals in the Church and not offending members who pay tithing. If it wasn't about maintaining income then the Church would be fighting same sex legislation tooth and nail all over the planet. Why isn't it doing so? Because that would negatively affect the fiscal bottom line. Church decisions are best understood when viewed through the lens of finical impact.
CFR on negative reaction from income stream
CFR on homosexual tithing
CFR that you are not intoxicated during this post