quote from Louie Crew

[srigdon]

I suppose many of you have seen this 1997 article along ago by Tucker Carlson:

www.theroadtoemmaus.org/RdLb/32Ang/Epis/Crisis.htm

I found this quote striking:

After a while it's hard not to conclude that the push for gay marriage in the Episcopal Church is more a political quest than a religious one. Louie Crew, founder of the Episcopal gay group Integrity, doesn't disagree. Getting the church to recognize homosexual marriages, he says, is just the first step on the long road to sexual emancipation. The next civil right to be established in the Episcopal Church, he predicts, will be the right to be married to more than one person simultaneously. "Threesomes and foursomes will have to push for their own agenda," Crew says, sounding tired. "That's not my battle. You can't do all of it at once."

Does anybody know if Crew has ever denied saying that?

If not, why haven't the conservatives used this as evidence that the gay agenda - from the mouth of the Integrity founder himself - is actually a much bigger one?

[Canadian Phil]

You touch upon an argument which is used quite often in the homosexuality debate on the conservative side: if we nod to homosexuality (understanding the argument- which is clearly not okay in the Bible), then what other depravity will we nod to. The argument has some force I recgonize, but it really is a red flag in front of a liberal bull if you chose to use it because it is a little manipulative to argue someone into a position they don't currently hold. That's why I tend not to use it because it does nothing to further dialogue, but rather degenerates rather quickly into insults and recriminations.

As for whether Louie Crew disavowed his statement, I really don't know. I don't follow him for the excellent reason that my head would explode if I did.

Peace,
Phil

[anglicansablaze]

I believe that some groups have been calling for the legalization of polygamy; others groups have been advocating polyamy. There have been some articles about the slippery slope from gay marriage to the legalization of polygamy, lowering of the age of consent, etc.

[srigdon]

I decided just to email Louie and ask him. He firmly denied ever believing in polyamory.

[Sojourner]

I'm asking this only because I don't know and am probably too lazy to do the research, but......can anyone point me to a specific prohibition against a man having more than one wife? All the Patriarchs had multiple wives, as did David and Solomon. When was multiple marriage prohibited in scripture?

[srigdon]

Well, Paul said that a bishop was to be the husband of one wife, as I recall. But, as Brigham Young infamously pointed out, he does not say the bishop cannot be the husband of more than one wife.

This is precisely my reason for the Christian polygamy thread. I'm still hoping for responses to it.