Imagine going to a party. You haven’t been there long and you really hit it off with a highly attractive person of the opposite gender. The whole night is spent laughing, joking, really connecting, and you honestly feel like maybe this could go somewhere. They invite you over to their place, never mentioning if they share living quarters with anyone else. When the two of you walk in the door there are already two others sitting on the couch cuddling and watching a movie. This is not what you were expecting but it’s no big deal until the person you have spent your whole night with greets the couple as his/her ‘lovers’ and gives each of them a smooch on the lips You have really enjoyed the company of this individual a lot. How do you react?
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Homosexuals have been welcomed into the wedded community recently, which shows many that the idea of love is not as black and white as was once thought. Thanks to this lead, those who identify as members of the polyamorous community now see a sign of hope to at last be with the ones they love as they have wanted for so long. Up until a short time ago it was strictly frowned upon to include others in the sensual acts originally meant for two. Even now hard judgments are thrown about when the topic arises. In spite of this fact, it has come to a point in time where people of all ages and backgrounds should have a clear mind and light opinions when it comes to the love affairs of those around them. This is no longer just a funny made up idea in a story, it is reality for a growing number of parties. However, it is most important for these words and numbers to really hit home with those who are over the age of 40. This is due to the fact that people born around the late 70’s and earlier had a more strict idea of how things were meant to be. Diverging from the normal was a thing scarcely attempted by young ones, they knew how mom, dad, and authority would react.
The legalization of gay marriage is proudly paving the way for Polygamy. An aspect which also helps these communities is the accepting and open minded likeness of the millennials. Adam Lerner, a writer …show more content…
A contributing writer at Reason magazine Cathy Young writes “It’s likely that every group marriage would essentially have to be customized. This would remove what many advocates have always cited as a major advantage of marriage: a single, simple legal act that creates a standard set of privileges and obligations” (Young). A law is meant to stand equally for all citizens, allowing the legalization of polygamy would flip this rule on its head. On the flip side, in fair opposition to her prior claim Young states “polygamous marriage should have a greater claim to legitimacy than same-sex marriage since it is far more rooted in history. But that argument misses a key factor in the cultural shift on same-sex marriage: gender equality as a central value of modern society” (Young). Gay marriage was brought about in hopes of creating gender equality but with the legalization of polygamy there could very well be an unbalance due to one man or woman having many partners of the opposite sex. As Jessica Bennett once said in a newsweek article “Polygamy is a choice; Homosexuality is not”. In most regards however, it is hard to say that anyone except those who choose for themselves should be able to decide who marries who. In the Supreme court case Obergefell v. Hodges fourteen same sex couples and two men whose same sex partners are deceased argue for legal marriage under
Although …show more content…
Homosexuals have been welcomed into the wedded community recently, which shows many that the idea of love is not as black and white as was once thought. Thanks to this lead, those who identify as members of the polyamorous community now see a sign of hope to at last be with the ones they love as they have wanted for so long. Up until a short time ago it was strictly frowned upon to include others in the sensual acts originally meant for two. Even now hard judgments are thrown about when the topic arises. In spite of this fact, it has come to a point in time where people of all ages and backgrounds should have a clear mind and light opinions when it comes to the love affairs of those around them. This is no longer just a funny made up idea in a story, it is reality for a growing number of parties. However, it is most important for these words and numbers to really hit home with those who are over the age of 40. This is due to the fact that people born around the late 70’s and earlier had a more strict idea of how things were meant to be. Diverging from the normal was a thing scarcely attempted by young ones, they knew how mom, dad, and authority would react.
The legalization of gay marriage is proudly paving the way for Polygamy. An aspect which also helps these communities is the accepting and open minded likeness of the millennials. Adam Lerner, a writer …show more content…
A contributing writer at Reason magazine Cathy Young writes “It’s likely that every group marriage would essentially have to be customized. This would remove what many advocates have always cited as a major advantage of marriage: a single, simple legal act that creates a standard set of privileges and obligations” (Young). A law is meant to stand equally for all citizens, allowing the legalization of polygamy would flip this rule on its head. On the flip side, in fair opposition to her prior claim Young states “polygamous marriage should have a greater claim to legitimacy than same-sex marriage since it is far more rooted in history. But that argument misses a key factor in the cultural shift on same-sex marriage: gender equality as a central value of modern society” (Young). Gay marriage was brought about in hopes of creating gender equality but with the legalization of polygamy there could very well be an unbalance due to one man or woman having many partners of the opposite sex. As Jessica Bennett once said in a newsweek article “Polygamy is a choice; Homosexuality is not”. In most regards however, it is hard to say that anyone except those who choose for themselves should be able to decide who marries who. In the Supreme court case Obergefell v. Hodges fourteen same sex couples and two men whose same sex partners are deceased argue for legal marriage under