A government typically shouldn’t allow anything their people don’t want. That said, people
want different things. Polygamy between consenting adults sounds like a fair thing to
allow. Personally, I wouldn’t encourage it, however if a loved one truly felt the need to
experience this I could accept it. Asking if homosexuality or gay marriage would open the
door for bigamy and polygamy seems irrelevant, because the answer wouldn’t prove any
of them to be immoral. Also, one is more heavily influenced by sexual preference while
the others are based more solely a right to a consensual union. Another one I hear is that
homosexuality opens the door to pedophilia legalization. Laws against pedophilia have
nothing to do with sex or gender. They exist because currently, children of all ages do not
have the cognitive development to understand sex’s impact on them, at their stage in life,
relative to the rest of society. Therefore, right or wrong, they cannot give proper consent,
and are protected per American tradition.
If that society ever comes to exist, it might be best to let them decide what to do with those
kids. Until then, arguments for pedophilia seem to be climbing a different hurdle altogether
from homosexuality, and pedophilia, homosexuality, bigamy, and polygamy different from
one another. I could think of nothing but “slippery slope fallacy” while reading the
presentation by Mr. Scalia. The government is also likely overreaching by outlawing
polygamy between consenting adults, even if they decide or need to regulate the union
fairly, but different from other unions. Example, a person with no union, or “single” filing
taxes pays less taxes than a two-person unit with “married status” does to make the share
in taxes paid more proportionate. Since the element of “consenting adults” is still intact,
the argument still stands at least.
The state of affairs for America are said to be separate from religion. But we are heavily
influenced by Christian principles so I’ll also respond there as well. Within the bible’s text
is a rarely spoken topic; the choice to sin. We know it by its larger concept of free will, but
tradition tells us to consider only the will to do good when we think of it, mostly because
of Christian views on sin. “It’s what God intended for us” would be the likely justification.
That’s why a “homosexual lifestyle” is so heavily scrutinized by many in American culture.
The support for the freedom to sin, and for the choice to add others to a marital union,
