The Next Step: Is Polyamory the Next Sexual Movement?

What comes next? That's the question that will be inevitably answered after homosexuality is legalized and normalized. Opponents of same sex marriage rightly raise this issue. Homosexuality is not the last straw. As Christians, we understand that fallen man is not content with their sin. Sin, therefore, will only increase and fallen man will seek more ways to indulge the flesh.

So, what is next? Polygamy? Lowering the age of consent? Bestiality?

Polyamory.

Polyamory is similar to polygamy, but does not involve marriage and consists of multiple couples who interchange with other couples living with them in their sexual experience. It is non-monogomous sexuality. Marriage is ignored and sexual promiscuity with multiple, consensual partners is practiced. Polyamory could be the next stage in our cultures obsession with unrestrained sex.

I hate to say it but, "I told you so." For those who feel that homosexuality is the last straw be prepared to be proven wrong. I predict that the polyamory movement will only grow and demand to be normalized, organized, and legalized. Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr. writes:

Legal theorists and opponents of same-sex marriage routinely (and rightly) make the argument that the legalization of homosexual marriage will, inevitably, lead to the legalization of polygamy. Once marriage is redefined to allow for same-sex unions, any determination to maintain legal prohibitions against polygamy will be seen as merely arbitrary. At the same time, once strictures against adultery were eliminated in the culture and in the law, something essentially like polygamy was inevitable.

And we will give in. How so? Because the same arguments made by homosexuals will be made to defend and promote polyamory. How can we say as a society that they do not have the right to practice their sexual lifestyles in private? Is polyamory not a civil right? Who is to say that is wrong? What is the purpose of marriage? What about civil unions? You cannot legislate morality right? Who are you to tell polyamorists that they are sinners? If they love one another, why does it matter?

You see the point. We should not be surprised by this. The moral decay of the culture has already begun. Dr. Mohler argues:


Perhaps the best way to understand this new movement is to understand it as a natural consequence of subverting marriage. We have largely normalized adultery, serialized marriage, separated marriage from reproduction and childbearing, and accepted divorce as a mechanism for liberation. Once this happens, boundary after boundary falls as sexual regulation virtually disappears among those defined as "consenting adults."

Consenting adults becomes the rationale for virtually any sexual practice. It is the argument made by homosexual proponents today. If two people love each other, who are we to intervene? Likewise, if polymory is consensual, how can we say that it is wrong? How dare we seek to stop it? But the madness will not end there. What about polygamy? lowering the age of consent? even bestiality?

We see then that issues like marriage, family, childbearing, and sexuality become rather relative terms in a society that has replaced absolute, final, and binding truth to privatisation and tolerance. The Church needs to be prepared to fight against more than just homosexuals and divorce. Those are only the tip of the iceberg. As Christians, we must be armed with the gospel that transforms the soul and sanctifies the sinner. We are all sinners in need to be remade. As the culture continues to become more deviant, we must realize that the answer is not just in elections, politics, and law, but in the preaching of Christ and Him crucified.




For more:
Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr. - Polyamory -- The Perfectly Plural Postmodern Condition
Newsweek - Only You. And You. And You.: Polyamory—relationships with multiple, mutually consenting partners—has a coming-out party.
Newsweek - ‘Traditionalists Better Get Used to’ Polyamory ,
The Polyamory Society Official Site
Where Does The Madness End? The Dire Destination Of The Homosexual Agenda - Part 1
Colson: Same-Sex 'Marriage' Today...Polygamy Tomorrow
Where Did I Really Come From?: Human Sexuality For Two-Year-Olds
Update: "Let's Talk About Sex Baby" - Barak Obama and Sex Education
Polygamy on the Rise: See, I Told You So
Pro-Marriage and Un-American: The Logic of the Left
Olbermann, Proposition 8, and the Left
1st Graders At a Lesbian Wedding: The Secular Indoctrination of Our Children
Obsess Much?: Understanding Our Cultures Obsession With Sex
Mohler: From the Bible to "Intimacy Kits" -- Goodbye to the Gideons?
An Oversexed Culture Coming to a Middle School Near You
A Seven Year Itch? Recovering Marriage in a Culture That Took It Out of It's Vocabulary - Part 1
D'Souza: The Equal Protection Hoax
A Day of "See, I Told You So's"