Senator Santorum

[Pete Ehlke]

On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 10:23:42AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> 
> "And if the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex
> within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to
> polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery.
> You have the right to anything."
> 
> You can find more context here:
> http://www.ncsfreedom.org/news/bigotedsen.htm
> 
> The annoying thing about what he said from the standpoint of the gay
> rights folks is that he's right. It really is a slippery legal slope.

I know I'm going to regret this, but...

Please explain the slippery slope that lies between consensual sex among
adults who are not married to one another and bigamy and polygamy,
which are marriage to multiple partners. I really, really don't follow
that one at all.