Turns out, marriage isn't about two people
who love each other—it's about three or five or six. That was Judge
Clark Waddoups' opinion in the most explosive ruling the media isn't
talking about.
Late last week, the U.S.
district judge's ruling should have kicked off the evening news in every
major market across America. Instead, his 91-page pro-polygamy bombshell is nothing but a back-page blip. And that's no accident.
When Waddoups struck down Utah's
criminal ban on "plural marriages" last Friday, the networks started
tiptoeing around the story like the cultural grenade it is.
Like us, they know the left's dirty little secret—that people who support same-sex marriage are
saying "I do" to a lot more than they bargained for. While liberals
insist that same-sex marriage is the ultimate goal, their demands only
lay the groundwork for other relationships to demand the same
entitlements. Once the courts and policymakers depart from the natural
definition of marriage, the left has a legal foundation for any
arrangement between consenting adults.
Judge Waddoups essentially admitted as much. Despite the fact that the Supreme Court outlawed polygamy
years ago, Waddoups insists he can't possibly rest on that decision in
modern society. In his words, America has "developed constitutional
jurisprudence that now protects individuals from the criminal
consequences intended by legislatures to apply to certain personal
choices."
Unfortunately, the Supreme Court's ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) this summer only sped the process along. Polygamists popped the corked on a little champagne of their own after the June ruling, as they wait their turn for nationwide acceptance
.
"We're very happy with [the ruling on DOMA]," said Joe Darger, a Utah polygamist,
"I think [the court] has taken a step in correcting some inequality,
and that's certainly something that's going to trickle down and impact
us. ... I think the government needs to now recognize that we have a
right to live free as much as anyone else."
Proponents of polygamy are riding the homosexual movement's wave of success all the way to legitimacy.
And
that's exactly what the mainstream media is afraid of. They see the
potential for this debate to sway the middle and derail the same-sex marriage train. Recognizing that their destinies are very much intertwined, polygamists
are using the same playbook as their same-sex marriage counterparts.
Step one: Overturn the law. Step two: Demand recognition. Step three:
Force acceptance.
Ten years ago, Justice Antonin Scalia predicted exactly that in Lawrence v. Texas,
the Supreme Court decision rolling back sodomy statutes. With prophetic
insight, he pointed to the threat to state laws "based on moral
choices" against "bigamy, same-sex marriage,
adult incest, prostitution ... adultery, fornication, bestiality, and
obscenity." Anyone being intellectually honest knew this was where
liberals were pushing America. Of course, the media for years laughed
off groups like Family Research Council who warned that the left's goal isn't same-sex marriage but any kind of marriage.
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