Well here it is folks, and no holds barred from the ACLU. This really makes NAMBLA happy.



Saturday, June 25, 2005
ACLU defends polygamy
Legal group backs 'freedom of choice'
Posted: June 25, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

The president of the American Civil Liberties Union says polygamy is among the "fundamental rights" that her organization will continue to defend.

During a question-and-answer session after a speech at Yale University, ACLU president Nadine Strossen stated that her organization has "defended the right of individuals to engage in polygamy," reported AgapePress, noting that the comments cited by the Yale Daily News received little attention.

The student paper said Strossen was responding to a "student's question about gay marriage, bigamy, and polygamy."

The ACLU chief said her organization defends "the freedom of choice for mature, consenting individuals," making it "the guardian of liberty ... defend[ing] the fundamental rights of all people."

Some opponents of same-sex marriage -- including, notably, Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa. -- have argued that its acceptance will create a slipperly slope, leading to the sanctioning of other types of relationships, including polygamy.

Crawford Broadcasting radio talk-show host Paul McGuire says the ACLU "has declared legal war on the traditional family."

"Now the ACLU is defending polygamy," he said, according to AgapePress. "You know, there are male and female lawyers who wake up in the morning and are actually proud of being ACLU lawyers. But I think the majority of Americans view ACLU lawyers as people who hate America and who want to destroy all Judeo-Christian values and beliefs."

McGuire asserts Strossen's organization seems "to only defend things that tear down the fabric of society."

National Review correspondent Ramesh Ponnuru says the ACLU might be defending a right for people to establish households in this way without necessarily fighting for governmental recognition of polygamous marriages.

"Even if so," Ponnuru concludes, "it is hard to see how the ACLU, on its own principles, could stop short of demanding a change to the marriage laws to allow for polygamy."

Strossen, president of the ACLU since 1991, also serves as acting professor of law at New York Law School and is the author of "Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex & the Fight for Women's Rights."

Explain to me why polygamy is wrong.

Then, explain to me why pedophilia is wrong.

You'll see they're two very different things, given that the first has only to do with consenting adults and the latter has to do with children who are not yet able to give consent, or as is likely, specifically gave nonconsent.

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...granting consent will be next.

1) What makes you think that?
2) You didn't explain to me why polygamy is wrong. I'm honestly curious.

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"Nothing is true. Everything is permitted." - Hassan-i-Saba

Was Adam a polygamist.. and did Adam have sexual intercourse with his children?

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"When I'm in command, every mission is a suicide mission!" -Capt. Zapp Branigan
The United Church of the Latter Day Tangential Tarts

...don't think poligamy is wrong. My point is the doors are being opened, for anything and everything.

Then ya best shut that door quick, BroncoBilly.. it might make you start having sex with the cows.

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"When I'm in command, every mission is a suicide mission!" -Capt. Zapp Branigan
The United Church of the Latter Day Tangential Tarts

sheep don't you? I'm not tall enough for cows.

You tell me man, I don't spend much time behind a cow's rearend.

BTW, since Adam was a polygamist and since Adam had sexual intercourse with his children... was that part of your "divine design" theory too?


edit: infact the last time I was anywhere near a cow it turned out to be a bull that ended up chasing my boyscout troop and us kids running for our lives

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"When I'm in command, every mission is a suicide mission!" -Capt. Zapp Branigan
The United Church of the Latter Day Tangential Tarts

Perception is reality, and unless there was more than one immaculate conception, I guess you could definitely say polygamy was the course of the day.