Is Labour's secret agenda legalising polygamy? This question is asked at No Minister who points out a few interesting links. One of those links made for interesting reading:
It's all very fine to allow consenting adults to do anything they like, but does that include tearing apart the fabric of our moral and cultural values? Such changes to our society are profound and far reaching, even if we can't see it. We can get a clearer view by looking back in history, or even into Islamic cultures.
Liberals and Muslims and possibly the gay lobby will be pleased with legalizing polygamy, thinking we are moving forwards. It's not until you they get to the final destination will they suddenly realise they had inadvertently turned a full 180 degrees along the way and ended up back at the beginning. Before Christian values declared marriage as a man and a women, two halves of a whole, in union for life under the holy sacrament of marriage.
It might be a tough ideal, but that's only a reflection of its value.
--ZenTiger
* Related Link and Good Article: Polygamy - was it good for you too?
* And a broader discussion at No Minister: NZ Labour Party - married to a secret agenda
* And a polyamory fan page: Wikiamory - where one page is just not enough
Update: Just realised I chopped off a paragraph from my original that explained my position on the state giving legal recognition to polygamy as equal to marriage, versus banning it outright. Luckily, this topic comes up in the comments. My apologies to the early commenters for the confusion caused.
Trad this week said he'd proposed to a second woman because he'd fallen in love and thought it sinful to commit adultery. His wife, Hanifa, said she'd approved, because it would mean "having (sex) in the right way instead of having it like go to a prostitute . . ."
It's all very fine to allow consenting adults to do anything they like, but does that include tearing apart the fabric of our moral and cultural values? Such changes to our society are profound and far reaching, even if we can't see it. We can get a clearer view by looking back in history, or even into Islamic cultures.
Liberals and Muslims and possibly the gay lobby will be pleased with legalizing polygamy, thinking we are moving forwards. It's not until you they get to the final destination will they suddenly realise they had inadvertently turned a full 180 degrees along the way and ended up back at the beginning. Before Christian values declared marriage as a man and a women, two halves of a whole, in union for life under the holy sacrament of marriage.
It might be a tough ideal, but that's only a reflection of its value.
--ZenTiger
* Related Link and Good Article: Polygamy - was it good for you too?
* And a broader discussion at No Minister: NZ Labour Party - married to a secret agenda
* And a polyamory fan page: Wikiamory - where one page is just not enough
Update: Just realised I chopped off a paragraph from my original that explained my position on the state giving legal recognition to polygamy as equal to marriage, versus banning it outright. Luckily, this topic comes up in the comments. My apologies to the early commenters for the confusion caused.