Comments on: A chilling vision of things to come

By: kahikatea

kahikatea — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:49:49 +0000

In all honesty, I think the slippery slope started with the move from arranged marriages to love-marriages.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 03:55:32 +0000

Surely the slippery slope began when remarriage and divorces were allowed. It’s been all downhill since then.
I don’t see Family First arguing against these?

By: lyndonhood

lyndonhood — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:19:25 +0000

Gentleman check Bob’s links http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1301/S00013/re-the-evidence-that-polygamy-will-be-next-claim.htm

By: MeToo

MeToo — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:00:56 +0000

deepred (channeling Stephen Franks) simple: dog can’t give consent.

By: MeToo

MeToo — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:58:36 +0000

Or, we could just abolish marriage altogether. Why should the state be regulating the relationships of consenting adults anyway?

By: deepred

deepred — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 08:20:22 +0000

Stephen Franks had a variation on this: “I love my dog but that doesn’t mean I should be allowed to marry it.”

By: timmy

timmy — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 05:11:06 +0000

A two girl threesome yeah, two wives? WTF?!

By: justsomeguy

justsomeguy — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 03:32:49 +0000

And where does all this leave Stephen Franks’ dog? Has he really got a dog that loves him?

By: Ben Wilson

Ben Wilson — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 02:00:26 +0000

I’m almost inclined to let Bob have this one, in the hope that it does in fact work out that way. We will get same sex marriage, and why not hurry the fuck up to just getting the government and bible out of our bedrooms altogether? Sometimes this kind of resistance can provoke a backlash that is actually rapidly progressive. Who the hell is Bob to say that basically everyone in the country can’t have another spouse? There’s probably over a million people here who have had that end up being their practical situation when they fell out with their first spouse.

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 01:51:46 +0000

… that someone would actually want to be married to not one but TWO women…

Sometimes I find it hard to believe there’s still one woman that wants to marry me. God only knows where I’d find a second one who wants to make that mistake.