Thoughts in a Haystack

His head is 'sploding.

A Federal judge in Utah has struck down a portion of the state's law against polygamy. Not the part of the law that refuses to legally recognize multiple partner marriages, only the part that that makes cohabitation between adults to whom they are not legally married a crime.

Al laments:

[W]hat we see here is a classic expression of the current sexual morality. That sexual morality now holds that the only defining and important moral principle is consent. So long as the persons involved in any sexual relationship are consenting adults, then there is understood to be no moral problem whatsoever, and society is told that it must simply accept the new arrangements. Finally, we also note that in his protest against laws against polygamy, Jonathan Turley says that the only factor of real interest here is whether or not the law is proved to prevent a harm to others. Well just consider that for a moment.

The only harm that he would consider here is a harm that is limited directed to the individuals involved. No reference here is allowable to the larger harm to society, or the injury to marriage as an institution. But as we have seen in the forward march to the legalization of same-sex marriage, the issue of harm to marriage and the larger society is simply excluded from moral consideration.

I wonder if Al would really consent to have the government install a camera in his bedroom to make sure he and his wife neither get nor give a blowjob ... part of the classic definition of sodomy ... and suffer criminal prosecution should it happen.

As to the stuff about "the issue of harm to marriage and the larger society is simply excluded from moral consideration," another bit of news shows the problem with that. No one has been able to demonstrate that there is any harm to marriage or society ... other than the heads of people like Al Mohler 'sploding because they can no longer force their ideas of what is right on everyone else.