CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY OCTOBER 7, 2022
WHEN THE SUPREME COURT RULED IN 1989 THAT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE WAS CONSTITUTIONAL I PREDICTED POLYGAMY WOULD BE NEXT. I ASKED WHAT BEHAVIOR WOULD COURTS NOT ALLOW AND ON WHAT BASIS, SINCE BIBLICAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL STANDARDS AND THOUSANDS OF YEARS OF TRADITION HAD BEEN OBLITERATED.
THE QUESTION HAS BEEN ANSWERED. THERE IS NO STANDARD.
A NEW YORK JUDGE HAS RULED POLYAMOROUS RELATIONS ARE ENTITLED TO THE SAME LEGAL PROTECTIONS AS MARRIED PEOPLE. JUDGE KAREN MAY BACDAYAN WROTE “THE TIME HAS ARRIVED” FOR POLYAMOROUS RELATIONSHIPS TO HAVE LEGAL RIGHTS.” SHE SAID THE PROBLEM WITH SAME-SEX MARRIAGES IS THEY RECOGNIZED ONLY TWO-PERSON RELATIONSHIPS.
THE JUDGE WROTE: “WHAT WAS ‘NORMAL’ OR ‘NONTRADITIONAL’ IN 1989 IS NOT A BAROMOTER FOR WHAT IS NORMAL OR NONTRADITIONAL NOW. INDEED, THE DEFINITION OF ‘FAMILY’ HAS MORPHED CONSIDERABLY SINCE 1989. MANY ARTICLES HAVE BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT MULTI-PERSON RELATIONSHIPS IN RECENT YEARS, REVEALING A PREFERENCE THAT FOR SOME HAS LONG BEEN KNOWN.”
SO “MANY ARTICLES” IS THE NEW “STANDARD”? WHAT’S NEXT, ADULT-CHILD MARRIAGE? BESTIALITY? WHAT’S TO STOP ADVOCATES FOR THOSE BEHAVIORS? IN THE LAST DAYS, WRITES PAUL, PEOPLE WILL INVENT WAYS OF DOING EVIL. I’M CAL THOMAS.
