do you take this woman and that woman to be your lawful-wedded wives?
Angry in the Great White North talks about the newest legal trend in the Netherlands: legal recognition of bigamous marriages. I talked about this as a hypothetical back in July.
So now that bigamous relationships are legal in Holland, how long will it be before they are recognized in Canada as well? I submit that as soon as someone in British Columbia tries to enforce the current law against bigamy and polygamy on the residents of the Bountiful commune, a court challenge will ensue, and the residents of Bountiful will succeed in striking down the law.
For those who are unwilling to believe in the slippery slope argument:
1) have the State interfere with the Church (so much for separation of Church and State), and usurp the solemnization of marriage: check.
2) remove the stigma on bearing children out of wedlock; indeed, subsidize the practice: check.
3) remove the stigma against homosexual practice; force Christian Schools to retain homosexual teachers against the school's beliefs; force homosexuality to be taught in schools: check.
4) remove the stigma against adultery and prostitution: in progress.
5) remove the stigma against divorce; enable easy divorces: check.
6) redefine marriage to include homosexual relationships: check.
7) redefine marriage to include polygamous marriages: check (no doubt in progress in Canada too).
8) remove the stigma against pederasty and pedophilia: in progress.
9) remove the stigma against bestiality: in progress.
10) express surprise that society is breaking down (after each of steps 1-9): check.
11) when a new society arises from the ashes of the old one, ignore the lessons of the past and repeat steps 1-10.
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4 comments:
Yikes! Well, I've seen on the news (so it MUST be true) that the reason the BC multi-wife clans haven't been prosecuted is because the prosecutors all recognize that they would lose, based on the Charter. So they don't prosecute.
So technically, it isn't legal, but in reality, it is.
Having lived through relationships, I just hafta ask WHO would want more than one spouse at a time? Ick.
In early summer I was watching a CSPAN program of the Canadian Parliment. One member stood and spoke of a recently released child abuser, who did not have to report himself because he was homosexual, therefore a protected class. He then raped and killed a young boy. Are there many stories like this in Canada?
Logic and reason obviously need not apply here... there's a basic distinction between acts between consenting and informed adults (which the state has no business interfering with, or any basis for favoring one form over another), and acts between adults and individuals/beings incapable of consent (children and animals). How that distinction escapes folks is beyond me... I sincerely hope that someone in Canada successfully demonstrates that the Charter protects multi-partner relationships equally as well as it protects two party same-sex relationships. We *ALL* deserve the right to marry.
There is no such thing as a right to marry. If there was such a right, then divorce would be a violation of that right.
There is also a difference between the state interfering with adults and the state sanctioning their behaviour. The state has no business in the bedroom, but by the same token the state has no business in the church either - and marriage is the business of the church, not the state.
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