Judge Cites Same-Sex Marriage in Declaring Polygamy Ban Unconstitutional

Ken Klukowski 14 Dec 2013

In a game-changer for the legal fight over same-sex marriage that gives credence to opponents’ “slippery slope” arguments, a federal judge has now ruled that the legal reasoning for same-sex marriage means that laws against polygamy are likewise unconstitutional.   In his 91-page opinion in Brown v. Buhman, on Dec. 13, U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups struck down Utah’s law making polygamy a crime. In so doing, he may have opened Pandora’s Box.

As a condition for becoming a state in 1896, Congress required Utah to outlaw polygamy, which is marriage between three or more persons. This case involved a family of fundamentalist offshoots of nineteenth-century Mormonism. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints disavowed polygamy in 1890, and again in 1904, but some splinter groups continue the practice.

Waddoups’ opinion would not only cover such groups, however, but also Muslims or anyone else who claims a right—religious or otherwise—to have multiple-person marriages. He notes that the Supreme Court ruled against polygamy in its 1878 case Reynolds v. U.S., but said he cannot simply rest upon that decision “without seriously addressing the much developed constitutional jurisprudence that now protects individuals from the criminal consequences intended by legislatures to apply to certain personal choices.” .....To Read More....  

My Take - And you're surprised...Right?  Let's face it, the real reason the western world embraced monogamy was because the laws of western civilization were based on Biblical definitions. Ancient Jews practiced polygamy, but without divine approval. The Christian era ended such thinking, in the Christian world. No matter what social construct society creates in opposition to that principle it creates serious problems. 

In Africa, where polygamy has been practiced for centuries, the social problems this arrangement creates within the home are serious. Every arrangement, whether its monogamy, polygamy, polyandry, or homosexuality has difficulties, but when these constructs are outside the traditional marriage arrangement the social and legal problems are exacerbated and detrimental to maintaining a long term stable society. 

What we need is a little more clarity. In order to do that, we need to properly define the problem. The real issue here is one of ultimate moral authority. All those on the left, whether they call themselves, socialists, leftists, progressives or Democrats are subscribers to a philosophy that is foundationally atheistic. 

Their goal is the elimination of traditional values in order to separate God from society. But their ultimate goal is to eliminate the concept of God entirely in order to create a socialist state with ultimate moral authority, and the right to control every aspect of our lives.