Tuesday, May 28, 2013

204. Non-monogamy as issue and non-issue.


I see it!  That's not adultery those people in Eliza Mundy's piece (Post 203) are calling "non-monogamy." Because they don't start pure.  There can't be adulteration.  Gays who hammer out a contract recognizing that "it's okay to be non-monogamous," husbands who propose "non-monogamy," wives who accept, have agreed on impurity.  So no issue.

But don't we have an adjacent issue?  As soon as those gays, those husbands, those wives, go to a Christian minister to marry them, maybe as soon as they ask society to give their relationship the traditional name "marriage," they raise the issue of qualification.  Gary Hall saw it right away: this ceremony, this name, is for promisers of purity. 

So you have to pick your issue.  You can't win at both.



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