Reply #21: Well...

[W_HAMILTON]

First of all, I don't see how people can equate homosexual marriage with polygamy. Homosexual marriage is the exact counterpart to heterosexual marriage. Now if people were pushing for polygamist homosexual marriage, ok, then I get your point. But they're not. It's just something that anti-gay marriage people bring up to try and make it sound like gay marriages are a bad thing.

It's not an argument about consenting adults for me. Maybe if you think that's all there is to it, then that would lead you to believe that polygamy should also be allowed. My reasoning is that, I'm gay and that's not illegal (even though some of the fundy's are trying to change that), and I can get married (albeit to a woman), and that's not illegal. So why make it illegal for me to marry someone of the same sex? That's just gay discrimination, plain and simple.

On the other hand, I can't legally marry 18 women, and I can't marry one man (much less 18 of them), so why would gay marriage pave the way for polygamy? It's illegal for everyone -- gays, straights, women, men, whoever. Marriage is not illegal TO gay people (since we could theoretically marry someone of the opposite sex), but it is illegal BETWEEN gay people. Do you see how silly that is?

And personally, I couldn't care less about polygamy. In fact, I'm leaning towards it, because if the Christian fundys can enforce their definition of marriage onto everyone else, why can't those religions that condone polygamy enforce their religious laws on us too?