After a few days of letting my pro-SSM friends and family revel in their victory, I took it upon myself to start pushing back on Facebook against the persecution of the Kleins and other conscientious objectors. What I learned says a lot about the developing cultural battlefield.

Progressives honestly don’t realize how deeply hypocritical it is to argue forcefully for “one special spouse” in precisely the same rhetorical manner that opponents of gay marriage have been throughout this national psychodrama. In practically the same breath, they note that laws banning homosexuality existed until fairly recently, then dismiss the possibility of plural marriages because they’re not legal anywhere. Sound familiar?

I like to point out that it’s a simple exercise to extrapolate Justice Kennedy’s logic to plural marriage and be equally valid. If love, dignity, and identity are the litmus test of what constitutes a marriage, the number of participants is trivial. The argument will go like this: