Over at Catholic Light, RC links to this article by Stanley Kurtz about the implications of the Supreme Court of Massacussetts (SCoM): get ready for polygamy!
Thank you, feminists and other '60's radicals, for working for a society where women would no longer be treated like property! No more of those wicked days -- we've made progress! We have dignity! Now we're treated like.... rentals!
I had an argument with my liberal college professor friend 2 years ago about this same issue. If marriage is a "social construct" (that is, it is what we vote on it to be), then there is absolutely no reason why it cannot be defined to make the weirdo polygamy people happy as well. If the sex does not matter, then the number cannot possibly matter either.
Most academics that I run into are WAY into the "gay marriage OK" philosophy. I absolutely stopped conversation at a party my friend threw by asking, "Well, then, it's going to be OK for you when those loony, polygamist, gun-toting separatists in Montana petition to have their group marriages sanctioned. Right? Right?" They sputtered and spewed around, but couldn't really come up with a good reason why it wouldn't be OK to do.
Ahem. Point made. Not that it did any good.
Juli Loesch Wiley once quipped: abortion "is like a rent-a-car"; you use a woman, and then you vacuum her out for the next customer.
And RC, why don't woment GET that? They've bought into a system that offers them less chance of happiness than they've ever had, and less protection at the same time.
Surveys of college women show such a shocking lack of understanding. Most college girls will still admit to wanting the marriage/children/monogamous relationship thing. But they expect to find it by "hooking up" with random guys!
My grandma was right--why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free? And dump it out the first time it seems a tiny bit spoiled.....