The polygamist family portrayed on the TLC reality show "Sister Wives" said all along its main goal in going on national television was to gain public acceptance of its lifestyle.
Now family patriarch Kody Brown, his four wives and 16 children and stepchildren are moving from the court of public opinion to the court of law, arguing that criminalizing their lifestyle is unconstitutional.
Those of us arguing for the one and only true definition of marriage predicted the emergence of this kind of movement all along. If the fundamental redefinition of an institution is allowed in one case, thus establishing that there is no core, no essential edifice, then why not go whole hog with the wrecking ball? Indeed, in such a case, nothing can prevent those at the levers from granting sanction to any and every newfangled arrangement that might surface tomorrow.
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