Equal Marriage Bingo!
If you’re following the debate in the House of Lords on the Second Reading of the Equal Marriage Bill, why not play Equal Marriage Bingo? Just cross off the predictable stock phrases as and when they occur, and you might win yourself a full House (of Lords). Although why you would want one is a mystery…
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In the Dark 
June 3, 2013 at 9:14 pm
I would argue that the “slippery slope argument – advocating that mild, moderate, reasonable reform is dangerous because it might start a process that will lead to much greater, undesirable change – is a logical fallacy and that it is never valid.
I recall the slipery slope argument regularly being cited by opponents of devolution twenty years ago when some of us were arguing in favour of democratisation of the functions of the old Welsh Office.
June 4, 2013 at 9:55 am
Polygamy arose because in traditional societies the role of the man was provision and the role of the woman was childbearing. Men who were rich could afford to provide for more than one woman, hence polygamy. But they would never be willing to provide for children who were not theirs, which is presumably why adultery by a wife was regarded as more serious than adultery by a husband.
Biology dictates that childbearing will always to be the woman’s role, but in the postwar West the tax-and-welfare system is now available as provider. I think that it is too soon to tell what the consequences will be. Society is in flux and has not reached a new equilibrium.