Polygamy has taken its first baby steps towards legalization. We all knew it was going to happen once same-sex marriages were given the okay.
As reported by the Catholic News Agency the liberal northeast opens a back door for polygamists to enter,
The city of Somerville, Massachusetts, has broadened its definition of domestic partnership to give polyamorous relationships the same rights as a married couple.
City councilor J.T. Scott, quoted in the New York Times, said that he believes this to be the first ordinance of its kind in the United States...
“'People have been living in families that include more than two adults forever,' said Scott..."
"Scott was quoted as saying that the new ordinance would legally recognize someone as having more than one domestic partner, regardless of the nature of that relationship..."I heard the same arguments from the LGBT crowd with the exception that the Somerville Council was not quoted as saying anything about not standing in the way of "love".
“'I don’t think it’s the place of the government to tell people what is or is not a family,' said city councilor Lance Davis, who drafted the domestic partnership ordinance.
'Defining families is something that historically we’ve gotten quite wrong as a society, and we ought not to continue to try and undertake to do so,' said Davis."
Somerville is a city located directly to the northwest of Boston, and north of Cambridge. As of 2019, the United States Census estimated the city to have a total population of 81,360 people.
Somerville has a single tiny Episcopal parish,
St James Episcopal Church (Somerville, MA)
Attendance: 17
Membership: 21I don't expect them to put up a fight against this. In fact, they might even be first in line to bless the poly's. A brief look at their web pages finds that they appear to practice communion of the unbaptized, and their "bridge priest" is a social justice warrior who writes,
" I continue to stand weekly, silently and with face-covering in Watertown Square, in solidarity with others residing in Watertown who work, publicly and privately, to eradicate social injustice wherever that societal illness seeks to destroy our common humanity."I doubt that he will be standing in Watertown Square to protest the societal illness of polyamory.
People of Somerville, your nearest Anglican Church is in Boston. Get thee hence.
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With an ASA of 17, it sounds like Episcopalians of Somerville have already gone somewhere else.
ReplyDeleteThese polygamy/polyamory supporters don't think things through (but if they did, they wouldn't support it). Do insurance benefits and publicly-funded benefits accrue to multiple partners? How about to Muslim males and their four wives each? This is going to get expensive.
When love is involved, who thinks things through? I think they want family insurance benefits. So if your friend has no insurance, you can simply add them as a domestic partner to scam the system. But in MA, they have the Mass-Care push for Medicare for all which, if passed on a national level, would make the scam unnecessary.
DeleteWill the Mormons rethink "Sister-wives". The fundamentalist Mormons are already there.
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