Rasumussen reports:
More voters than ever are now pro-choice when it comes to abortion, but just as many view it as morally wrong in most situations.
Overall, 52% of Likely U.S. Voters consider themselves pro-choice when it comes to abortion, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Forty-one percent (41%) say they are pro-life.
This is the damage done by the “personally pro-life” gambit. The consequences of the popularity of this political sidestep are destroying our culture. If one follows the logic, it’s conceivable to have 100 percent of the people agree that something is terribly immoral but should not be illegal because someone could possibly think otherwise.
It’s ludicrous and completely disassociates legality from morality. And that’s dangerous because that ends in a completely amoral culture. It’s similar with the marriage debate. Many people have told me that while they believe marriage is between a man and a woman they don’t feel comfortable legislating their morality.
Well, let me tell you something the other side of the debate feels just fine about codifying their morality into law.
Why is gay marriage OK but not bigamy or incest? Why? It’s not because morality. It’s an ick factor. There’s still an ick factor to those things. It’s not a reasoned morality. It’s just “ick.” But a generation ago, there was an “ick” factor about homosexuality. A few sitcoms later and we’re so over it. So now we just have to wait for the next great bigamist sitcom. Come on, it’s not hard to picture. Maybe it’d be called, “Seven is Enough” or “Make Room for Mommies.”
This is no way to run a civilization.
August 7, 2012 at 6:27 pm
We've already had Big Love and Sister Wives.
August 7, 2012 at 6:50 pm
Great point- hadn't thought of it that way before. True!
August 8, 2012 at 2:26 am
"Why is gay marriage OK but not bigamy or incest?"
Because a "gay marriage" is naturally sterile, and sterility and death seem to be the popular solutions to America's problems. I love my country, but I love Jesus and His Church more. America is over — and soon — unless the nation repents.
August 8, 2012 at 9:23 am
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August 8, 2012 at 9:25 am
Bigamy, lots of societies have gotten away with. It's in our genes; though there's a significant amount of evidence anatomical modernity in humans is linked to monogamy, all our ancestry prior to that appears to have been silverback-and-harem.
Incest, on the other hand, is an ick-factor you never really get rid of. It's called the Westermarck effect. Only a very few people—the royal families of Egypt and the Inca Empire—practiced it even irregularly; for everyone else, it wasn't a practice, it was a crime. And most of the kin-marrying in Egypt may have been legal fictions, i.e. "I marry my sister so she's taken care of", without necessarily consummating it.