Polygamy.
Law professor and television commentator Jonathan Turley argues in USA Today for the legalization of polygamy. (*) In a time when Muslim immigrants stream into the country, when polygamous splinter groups from the Mormon church grow unhindered, and gay marriage challenges bedrock principles, Turley’s argument strikes at the heart of the matter.
He extends the logic of gay marriage—if this is a free country, I should be free to marry whomever I want—to plural marriage.
Yet, this is not a completely free society. This is a society of law and order, not one of anarchy and barbarism. As a free and good society, we have a right to continue to exist as a society.
Critical to the continued existence of society is society’s internal structure. Cultural anthropologists have found that every society, including ours, bases itself on organizing principles.
If in the name of freedom we deny ourselves the right to organize ourselves into a society based on certain principles, we deny the continued existence of society. Nothing less is contemplated by the would-be gay marriage and polygamy revolution.
Ultimately, the reason is simple why polygamy, gay marriage, and the other challenges to marriage are wrong. Society gives us some freedom, and in return we agree to society’s fundamental rules. One of the fundamental rules is the definition of marriage. If you don’t like the fundamental rules, either endure it or move away. There is no exception for anyone.