We hate to say ‘we told you so’: same-sex marriage & polygamy
April 25, 2013 ( Breakpoint.org ) - In a scene from Jurassic Park , Ian Malcolm , the mathematician skeptical about whether the park is a good idea, watches the T-Rex burst out of its enclosure and says, “I hate being right all the time.” 'I hate being right all the time.' Indeed. Princeton Professor Robert George and other defenders of traditional marriage understand these sentiments. For years, they’ve warned that redefining marriage beyond the union of one man and one woman wouldn’t—indeed couldn’t—stop with same-sex unions. The same reasoning that extends marriage to same-sex couples would easily be applied to polygamy and polyamory also. The standard response to these concerns was scoffing and accusations of fear-mongering. Well, the fences are down and the beast is loose. On Valentines’s Day, the Scientific American published an article claiming that polyamorists could “teach us a thing or two about love,” and the only reason to oppose it was bigotry b...