Two pieces of note in the Washington Post today.
First, a piece on the polygamy movement. A key excerpt: "Valerie and others among the estimated 40,000 men, women and children in polygamous communities are part of a new movement to decriminalize bigamy. Consciously taking tactics from the gay-rights movement, polygamists have reframed their struggle, choosing in interviews to de-emphasize their religious beliefs and focus on their desire to live "in freedom," according to Anne Wilde, director of community relations for Principle Voices, a pro-polygamy group based in Salt Lake."
What? You mean that gay marriage might encourage the legaleization (or at least the normalization) or polygamy? I thought such notions were a "red herring."
There's also a piece about the decline of marriage in France. There's lots of nice spin on it (no mention, for instance, that couples who live together without benefit of clergy are much more likely to separate than married couples). I found this statistic depressing, "Last year, 59 percent of all first-born French children were born to unwed parents, most by choice, not chance. The numbers were not driven by single mothers, teenage mothers or poor mothers, but by couples from all social and economic backgrounds who chose parenthood without marriage vows."
Doomed. Western Civillization is doomed, I tell you.
