Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Choice: In Marriage Too

It didn’t take all that long for the slope to slip to this:
Legalize Polygamy: No I’m Not Kidding:

“Here’s the thing: As women, we really can make our own choices. We just might choose things people don’t like. If a woman wants to marry a man, that’s great. If she wants to marry another woman, that’s great too. If she wants to marry a hipster, well—I suppose that’s the price of freedom.

And if she wants to marry a man with three other wives, that’s her damn choice.”
[Emphsis added]
You just have to love the Left’s euphemistic term, “Choice”, originally as a substitute for the more accurate term, “kill your progeny”. The concept of “Choice” works for all sorts of other things too, when taken to its Reductio Ad Absurdum conclusion. A woman can “choose” all sorts of things with her private body and her private emotional state and her private whatever. So in terms of fairness, so can a man (well, maybe not white men). But if a woman wants to marry her cat, her hamster, all her first cousins, and all her neighbors on both sides of the street… that’s her damn choice.

"All marriages deserve access to the support and resources they need to build happy, healthy lives, regardless of how many partners are involved. Arguments about whether a woman’s consensual sexual and romantic choices are “healthy” should have no bearing on the legal process. And while polygamy remains illegal, women who choose this lifestyle don’t have access to the protections and benefits that legal marriage provides."

And that settles it. Or does it? Here’s the money quote:
“The definition of marriage is plastic. Just like heterosexual marriage is no better or worse than homosexual marriage, marriage between two consenting adults is not inherently more or less “correct” than marriage among three (or four, or six) consenting adults. Though polygamists are a minority—a tiny minority, in fact—freedom has no value unless it extends to even the smallest and most marginalized groups among us. So let’s fight for marriage equality until it extends to every same-sex couple in the United States—and then let’s keep fighting. We’re not done yet.”
[Emphasis added]

Yes, all of a sudden the definition of marriage is definitely plastic. In fact, marriage should be extended to a person who wants to marry herself. And maybe her mother. And daughter. (But not her father, if he is white). Definitely plastic, which means that the definition has no meaning at all, since a definition which has no differentiation is no longer a definition. And how can pedophiles be discriminated against if there is no differentiation in the definition of marriage? Fair is fair. If there is to be no discrimination in the definition of marriage, then you cannot draw lines which discriminate, just not against you and your damn choice. That's - you know this - intolerant.


2 comments:

Martin said...

Pedophiles are involved with non-adults who are incapable of making their own decisions. Whereas gays and polygamists are all consenting adults.

Gay marriage (or better yet: simply contract law), polygamy, all good. Animals and children, no good.

Consenting adults should be free from big government telling them what to do with their private lives.

Stan said...

This is all deja vu - the psychiatric faction of pedophiles is intent on demonstrating that denying sexual experience to children causes dysfunction in adulthood. And of course, who better to give that experience than those who "love children"?

Besides, the age boundary is an arbitrary barrier, just as the sex and number barrier is.

And animals, why there are people - a minority, granted - who "love animals", and who are causing no harm to other people. Why must they be in the closet due to discrimination and the arbitrary dislikes of other people?

Discrimination is intolerance, which is against the social norm of today (except for white men of course). In fact, it is being more and more applied to felony law, as hate crime.

Any barrier at all is intolerant, and no barrier is the only real limit when all subsidiary limits are deemed aribtrary and discriminatory - if those are the criteria which are to be established and entrenched. And they are.

And there's the problem.

If there ever is an incentive for getting the government out of people's business, marriage issues should be the precipitator.

An old lady may leave her entire estate to her cat, legally. So can any person who wants another person to inherit their estate.

Legal contract should be enough, even for religiously obtained marriages, as well as for non-religious atttachments and commitments.