The case for monogamy
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Stephen Macedo is Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University and the author of, Just Married: Same-Sex Couples, Monogamy, and the Future of Marriage (Princeton University Press, 2015)
MANY progressives are signing on to a central plank in Chief Justice John Roberts's dissent in the recent same-sex marriage case. As W.W. put it in a recent post here, now that same-sex marriage has "blasted open" the "libertarian door," liberals need "more rationally compelling arguments" to shut polygamists out. Indeed, the author asserts that accounts of polygamy's social harms, including mine, have "the same speculative character as some conservative arguments against legal gay marriage." And if...Continue reading
July 9, 2015 at 03:56PM
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