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   Welcome to the exciting new world of the slippery slope. With   
   the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling this Friday legalizing same   
   sex marriage in all 50 states, social liberalism has achieved   
   one of its central goals. A right seemingly unthinkable two   
   decades ago has now been broadly applied to a whole new class of   
   citizens. Following on the rejection of interracial marriage   
   bans in the 20th Century, the Supreme Court decision clearly   
   shows that marriage should be a broadly applicable right—one   
   that forces the government to recognize, as Friday’s decision   
   said, a private couple’s “love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice   
   and family.”   
      
   The question presents itself: Where does the next advance come?   
   The answer is going to make nearly everyone uncomfortable: Now   
   that we’ve defined that love and devotion and family isn’t   
   driven by gender alone, why should it be limited to just two   
   individuals? The most natural advance next for marriage lies in   
   legalized polygamy—yet many of the same people who pressed for   
   marriage equality for gay couples oppose it.   
      
   This is not an abstract issue. In Chief Justice John Roberts’   
   dissenting opinion, he remarks, “It is striking how much of the   
   majority’s reasoning would apply with equal force to the claim   
   of a fundamental right to plural marriage.” As is often the case   
   with critics of polygamy, he neglects to mention why this is a   
   fate to be feared. Polygamy today stands as a taboo just as   
   strong as same-sex marriage was several decades ago—it’s   
   effectively only discussed as outdated jokes about Utah and   
   Mormons, who banned the practice over 120 years ago.   
      
   http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/06/gay-marriage-   
   decision-polygamy-119469.html#.VZLTBflVj38   
      
   --   
   homophobia, the gay fear of being sexually natural.   
      
        
      
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