Legalizing polygamy

Conservatives have now banned gay marraige. Miscegenation, or the marraige between people of different races, was banned at some point as well. People argue that marraige should be reserved for people of opposite sexes, a Christian model that honors heterosexuality, conjugal reproduction through heterosexual sex, and the concept of marraige that traditionally has been maintained in Western Christian society. This model is very white and very European. Polygamy, as well as polyandry, most notably practiced in Tibet, bothj have been standard forms of conjugal union in other societies than White European society. Polyandry, for example, was practiced in Tibet because the husbands were traders and since the salt trade required men to travel out of the Himalayan mountains, one husband would remain at home while the other went off to trade with non-Tibetan people in the lower altitudes. Polygamy, in Islam, was practiced in Muslim society from the start. the Qur'an dictates that a man may hvae four wives as long as he treats them equally. The assumption is that the wives will know each other and cooperate. Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him and the blessings of God) had nine wives at one point, many of hwom were widows from the various wars being fought to establish the early Ummah. He also married a divorced woman, a blessing that has preserved the sanctity of divorce over the history of Islam.
Legalizing gay marraige is not enough. Why should there be a limited change, a change that actually creates a parody of legitimacy for an interest group, an imitation of heterosexual unions that are often critiqued and rejected by Queer people already? It actually makes far more sense to legalize unconventional marraiges generally, including polygamy, but also polyandry.
In this current climate of political change, we need to reestablish our basic civil rights to the fullest extent possible. Religious freedom should include the right to marry as we please. The reestablishment of the Bill of Rights would be in every way secured by a new piece of legislation that established polygamy, in particular, as a socially sanctioned form of marraige. Our First Amendment rights should not be infringed upon merely because of Christian standards that do not accomodate cultural conditions of much of the planet, not to mention the United States. Polygamy ought to be legalized, and stand with Gay marraige as a testament to the freedom and human rights that all people cherish.

What do racism and sexism prehend?

What do racism and sexism prehend? Potentially, they are actual entities that as thoughts prehend the realization of greater width in the lives of people of color and women. In the consciousness of human beings rascism and sexism prehend the people who live lives that collectively constitute the actual entities of inclusive and feminist, diverse and humanist society. The post-modern world, and its emphasis on making globalization and corporate capitalism livable for Third World people and women is a world where racism and sexism are being unraveled. It doesn't make any sense though that suffering and oppression are a necessary part of God's care for the world. The existence of evil and suffering cannot be explained as a necessary prehension of good, and if it is explained that way, it should have a much greater elaboration by process theologians.