*wince*

[vixenesque93]

ABC News article on polyamory

"Some See Polyamorous Marriage as the Next Civil Rights Movement"

From the article: "We are the next generation after the gay and transgender communities."

Next civil rights movement? Call me a repressed poly, but if this is going to set back legal recognition (and overall social acceptance) of gay marriage then I want no part of it.

Comments

[fearless-son.livejournal.com]

I have known people opposed to gay marriage saying that it sets a precedent that allows any type of marriage, including polyamousous ones. However, I always took that as less of an objection to polyamoury, and more of a thin excuse under which to veil their intolerance of homosexuality.

[hiddenriver.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on this. I'd like the right to be left alone and not have to worry about my children being taken away by some crusader using CPS as a club to destroy families they don't like. Beyond that, I'm good.

Then again, I sound like a lot of gay people I knew 25 years ago. "I'm not asking to get married, I just want to not get gay-bashed. Is that too much to ask?"

If we become a big issue in the freedom of love/marriage fight somewhere down the road, it'll be because we'll have worked to become more visible and as a result the public will have started to realize that we're not a threat to anybody. It won't suddenly happen because they stopped treating gays as second-class citizens.

It's all about timing. Now is definitely not the time.

[princekermit.livejournal.com]

It's all about timing. Now is definitely not the time.

Ayup.

[clayshaper.livejournal.com]

It's sad, but polygamous marriage exists in far far more places already, than gay or transgender marriage... it'll be a much easier fight in the end.

I just agree with everyone on it- it's just not a good time yet. It'll happen tho!