Sen. Graham, quit muddying the waters!

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COMMENTS:
*  By your own words marriage has changed over time and many time in different ways so there is no valid justification to deny gay marriage. Saying this the government does have the right to limit the legal number that can be in a marriage contract cause it determines legal benefits and certain legal rights. If you or anyone else wants to have multiple partners then you can but can't get the legal rights that go with it. This is applies all people and is the fairest to all people. So, the case for 2 can be made over polygamy on those grounds.  By the way we do have communities in the US that practice polygamy while the government does not recognize this and will provide the benefits to only 2 people in the family that were legally married under the laws.  Prior to gay marriage polygamist can enjoy the benefits the government provide to monogamist marriages just that only 1 pairing was recognizes while the other wives or husbands were not considered legally married. Expanding this right to gay people is only fair and does not support or lead to legalizing polygamy.
*  Oh, Lindsey, you forgot one of the other GOP chestnuts, "If same sex marriage is the law of the land, then what's wrong with marrying your dog?" Egads, Dinosaurs that are dying sure make a lot of funny noises.
*  People in glass closets should be careful of the stones they throw.
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GOP Senator Asks Loretta Lynch: Why Is Gay Marriage OK, But Polygamy Isn't?
By Igor Bobic, January 28, 2015


[Question posed at 9:35]

During Loretta Lynch's confirmation hearing Wednesday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) tried to take the attorney general nominee down the slippery-slope argument often made against the marriage equality movement by inquiring what the legal difference is between marriage of same-sex couples and that of three or more people.

'What is the legal difference between a state -- a ban on same-sex marriage being unconstitutional but a ban on polygamy being constitutional?" he inquired at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. "Could you try to articulate how one could be banned under the Constitution and the other not?"

Lynch, who is the current U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, didn't take the bait. She cited her inexperience in dealing with cases of precedent on the matter, and promised to "look forward to continuing the discussions with you."

The Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, the law barring the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages legalized by the states, as unconstitutional in 2013. The court found that the law violated the Fifth Amendment because it denied marriage rights to a specific class of people. Many Republicans have defended same-sex marriage bans with that rationale by raising the issue of polygamy, a practice that remains much more controversial and unpopular across the U.S.
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