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Old 01-01-2014, 11:23 PM   #1
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Default The LGBT movement--next phase is to end marriage

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In 2006, as the “marriage equality” movement was gaining steam within the LGBT activist community, dozens of prominent gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender activists signed a statement called ++“Beyond Same Sex Marriage” (PDF)— outlining an agenda that would expand family policy in America to include gay couples as well as other “non-traditional families” rather than simply shoe-horning gay folks into the existing structures (and strictures) of hetero-normative marriage. Census data were already showing that the majority of American families were no longer fitting the traditional, nuclear mold. Today, four out of five families fall outside that dated construct. The “Beyond Same Sex Marriage” statement read, “To have our government define as “legitimate families” only those households with couples in conjugal relationships does a tremendous disservice to the many other ways in which people actually construct their families, kinship networks, households, and relationships.” To the mainstream gay-rights activists assuring that they really just wanted to strengthen conventional marriage, this liberationist wing held up a different vision—of dismantling civil marriage as we know it to make room for modern family needs. (And lest this seem like such a radical and untenable political agenda, conservatives such as Glenn Beck and libertarians like Rand Paul support getting government out of the marriage business.)
This is one reason that perhaps those of us that value marriage should double down in support of gay marriage. And work to establish it as the ideal and norm.
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This is one reason that perhaps those of us that value marriage should double down in support of gay marriage. And work to establish it as the ideal and norm.

Can I have more then one wife? Because if we could group polygamy in there then that would be just swell.
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All these different marriage configurations are making me dizzy.
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