Polygamists are picketing for the right to have multiple wives! Egads!
"Polygamy rights is the next civil-rights battle," says Mark Henkel, who is the founder of a Christian evangelical polygamy organization. Henkel argues that if a child can have two mommies, then it is should be legal for her to have two mommies and a daddy.
Gay and lesbian activist groups contend against this slippery-slope ideology. Yet Henkel's argument brings up an interesting point: what is the government's role in defining marriage?
I'm not asking whether or not we should legalize gay marriage or polygamous marriage. My question is this: where does the government draw the line? Why is one marriage right but another wrong? Should the government even have a say in who should or shouldn't get married? Where indeed do we seek this sort of guidance?
From God? (But how do we do so in a secular nation?)
From philosophy? (Yes, but which philosophy do we choose?)
From the people? (Can we trust the view of the masses if they are so prone to change after a few decades?)
What do you think?
