[identity profile] badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] talkpolitics
And so it begins:

Kody Brown is a proud polygamist, and a relatively famous one. Now Mr. Brown, his four wives and 16 children and stepchildren are going to court to keep from being punished for it.

The family is the focus of a reality TV show, “Sister Wives,” that first appeared in 2010. Law enforcement officials in the Browns’ home state, Utah, announced soon after the show began that the family was under investigation for violating the state law prohibiting polygamy.

On Wednesday, the Browns are expected to file a lawsuit to challenge the polygamy law.

The lawsuit is not demanding that states recognize polygamous marriage. Instead, the lawsuit builds on a 2003 United States Supreme Court decision, Lawrence v. Texas, which struck down state sodomy laws as unconstitutional intrusions on the “intimate conduct” of consenting adults.


I'm in favor of gay marriage for the same reason I'm in favor of legal polygamy, legalized adult incest, and all the rest - the state really shouldn't be telling anyone else who they can and cannot be in a recognized relationship with, full stop. Unfortunately, I've found that many who agree with gay marriage do not feel the same way about these other types of adult relationships.

Why is it that "equal marriage" only exists for many when it deals with their idea of reality? Should hardcore advocates of gay marriage be lining up behind the Brown family in solidarity and support of their situation? If you believe the US Constitution allows for, if not outright mandates, gay marriage, do you feel the same way here?

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Date: 13/7/11 22:14 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] skull-bearer.livejournal.com
I'm fine for anything as long as its consenting and adult, but I'm curious, what do you think of consenting adult incest?

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Date: 13/7/11 22:48 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] skull-bearer.livejournal.com
Pretty much same here.

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Date: 13/7/11 22:50 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] soliloquy76.livejournal.com
What about government assistance for their inevitable retarded babies?

Yeah, I went there.

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Date: 14/7/11 01:51 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] anfalicious.livejournal.com
I thought the defects thing was overblown, but this is what wiki says:

A 1994 study found a mean excess mortality with inbreeding among first cousins of 4.4%.[54] A study of 29 offspring resulting from brother-sister or father-daughter incest found that 20 had congenital abnormalities, including four directly attributable to autosomal recessive alleles.[55]

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Date: 14/7/11 00:46 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] geezer-also.livejournal.com
Two brothers or two sisters probably wouldn't produce offspring.

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Date: 14/7/11 12:31 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] geezer-also.livejournal.com
Well same sex marriage usually doesn't. Granting A lesbian can usually give birth, but it isn't her same sex partner that impregnates her.

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Date: 14/7/11 16:10 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] htpcl.livejournal.com
Ooh sorry sorry. I thought you were talking about a brother and a sister.

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