SentinelMind
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I believe people are inherently implying "agreement between consenting adults", not abused, coerced children.
On a base level he's right. If Polygamy should be illegal because people don't like it then Alabama should be able to ban interracial marriage. Child abuse is another topic.
No, the American people adopted the 13th and 14th amendment to end racial discrimination in this country after the Civil War. Nowhere did they mention the redefinition of marriage.
My opinion is that our rights and freedoms should be protected by the constitution, with a clear separation of church and state. This includes people trying to "legislate morality", which is what nearly ALL the marriage arguments boil down to.
It doesn't matter what society thinks when it comes to our basic human rights. This includes the right for competent adults to enter into a mutually agreeable contract of their choosing. The governments only role should be making sure there is no harm, coercion, and enforcing the contract laws. Doing what you say then segregation would have probably lasted another 10-15 years, if not more.
It seems like your advocating legislating morality.
You don't have a right to have six wives. If you can show me where in the US Constitution it says this, then I will change my mind. Just because you want something really really bad doesn't mean you have a right to it.
Any power not endowed in Constitution needs to be decided by state legislature. Our founders created this country to give people freedom decide what institutions we wanted within our community. If one state wanted to try change the definition and another state didn't want to, federalism mentioned in our Constitution allows each state to try their own method without imposing that will on another state.
The cliche segregation argument used to justify polygamy and every new "social experiment come lately" is already answered by the 13th and 14th amendment. Those social experiments are not named in those amendments.
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