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Del. Neil Parrott, R-Washington, offered a defeated amendment to allow polygamy and later withdrew one to allow incestuous marriage.
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Sadly, I think he (Parrott) did that as a strategy to try and kill the bill.
ReplyDeleteIf so, the others should have taken the opportunity to make a bold move by keeping the amendments and adopting the bill. Do they really think they're going to lose any MORE voters for going for FULL marriage equality than they will lose for passing the freedom to marry for (some_ same-sex couples? I doubt it.
ReplyDeleteYeah, they should have; it would have been the high ground. But, I think there is still a great deal of perceived political liability attached to poly and consang marriage. Along with your thrown-under-the-bus train of thought, they still want to advocate same-sex marriage as legally unconnected to poly/consang (but, of course, they are intimately connected... pun intended). Politics, being what it is, is subject to extra-legal concepts like disgust and popularity. I see it as more likely that legislative normalization of same-sex marriage will make it easier for the judicial side to introduce marriage equality for poly and consang relationships.
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