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GAY MARRIAGE OKAY--POLYGAMOUS MARRIAGE NOT OKAY?
[FLDS]

The California Supreme Court said this week that gay marriages are okay...under the law.

It didn't take long for State Assemblyman Chuck Devore, to say that the ruling will now stop the state from being able to ban "polygamous marriages."

We've heard that smarmy type of argument before.

What those saying this are really saying is "I don't like gay marriages, but gays are militant. And, because of their militancy, they've become PC and will have some moral high ground to attack me if I attack them.

"So, being a typical politician, I'm only going to attack gay marriage obliquely by attacking polygamous marriages [such as practiced by the FLDS down in Texas], because polygamists haven't become militant enough yet and are still easy targets for bigotry."

Or, in good old boy speak: "Why, shucks, gay marriages are okay with me boy, but gee if we allow them to marry, then those evil polygamists will also get a pass."

Bigotry doesn't change. It just changes targets.

Our position on marriage

Marriage is a contract between individuals and is not the business of the state.

However, as with many of our positions on the bigger questions of existence, we look to what we can observe or infer from nature for a deeper understanding of existence and our place in it.

It seems clear to us that nature's (or, God's if you prefer) primary directive, written in the genes of everything that lives, is "expand yourself [no matter who or what "yourself" is] by making more like yourself." We see that as part of the eternal struggle to be.

All arrangements, including polygamy, that help you expand yourself by making more like yourself, are in concert with nature (or God), and all arrangements that do not do this are counter to nature (or God) and what can be called the life force or that which animates the same chemicals and minerals found throughout the universe so that they have "life."

In either case, and to repeat, marriage is not the business of the state, or at least not in our culture that pretends to want diversity in all things. Of course, this leads off into a long discussion about the nature of the state and nations and peoples and religion and even physics (yes, physics), but we'll forgo that for now.
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