{"id":1891,"date":"2005-10-24T00:38:47","date_gmt":"2005-10-24T07:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/10\/22\/why-the-slope-wont-slip\/"},"modified":"2005-10-24T00:38:47","modified_gmt":"2005-10-24T07:38:47","slug":"why-the-slope-wont-slip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1891","title":{"rendered":"Why the Slope Won&#039;t Slip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cathyyoung.blogspot.com\/2005\/10\/decline-and-fall-in-netherlands.html\">Cathy at The Y Files<\/a> is right on target when she writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the reasoning used to justify the legalization of same-sex marriage (i.e., the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court&#8217;s assertion, in Goodrich v. Department of Public Health, that marrying &#8220;the person of one&#8217;s choice&#8221; is a fundamental right) could be used to support legalization of polygamy. For that to happen, however, there would have to be (1) a non-fringe political movement advocating for the right to multi-partner marriage, and (2) widespread social acceptance of multi-partner relationships. Of course, (1) and (2) are related. At this point in time, neither factor is present: the polyamory movement has about as much influence as the Flat Earth Society, and multi-partner relationships are almost universally regarded as either immoral or just plain weird.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To that, I&#8217;d add that even if SSM is banned, it will <em>still <\/em>be possible for poly marriages to be legalized if (1) and (2) happens. So although you can argue for the existence of a theoretical slope between them (as Young does), in practice there&#8217;s not much connection between them.<\/p>\n<p>(Slight nit-pik: ploygamy is already legal, so the question isn&#8217;t &#8220;legalization of polygamy,&#8221; as Cathy states; what&#8217;s at issue is if polyamorous marriages will be legally recognized.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathy at The Y Files is right on target when she writes: the reasoning used to justify the legalization of same-sex marriage (i.e., the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court&#8217;s assertion, in Goodrich v. Department of Public Health, that marrying &#8220;the person &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1891\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-same-sex-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}