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Seattle City Council Votes Unanimously to Protect Polygamists and Infidelity

A lot of smart people live in Seattle, but their City Council did something really dumb this week. 

By unanimous vote, the Seattle City Council on Tuesday removed the legal reality of male and female in its city statute relative to “sexual orientation” and gave legal recognition and protections to a whole host of very unhealthy sexual and gender identities. Some of them don’t even exist in reality. They even backtracked on the lie that sexual orientation rests on “just being born that way.”

And Seattle’s City Council had to do all this because the gender and sexual revolution keeps moving its own goal posts. 

The Emerald City’s leadership explained their vote “update[s] the existing protected class of ‘sexual orientation’” by removing any “reference to the male and female gender binary.” The fact that being either male or female is universally fundamental to being human is no concern to them as Seattle affirms its legal recognition and protection of “non-binary gender identities.” Of course, non-binary is a fictitious ideological construct which does not exist in nature. Every cell in the human body is sexed. That sex is either male or female. “Non-binary” exists solely in the imagination.

In addition, Seattle now recognizes “‘pansexuality’ and ‘asexuality’ as sexual orientations subject to civil rights protections.” Pansexuality is also a made-up term, created to cover over the embarrassment that “bisexuality” rests on the dreaded “gender binary.” Bi is right there in its name. The creation of pansexuality was needed because gender theory now incoherently holds that anyone can be any of the 20, 68, 72, 81, or 87 sexualities that none of the people telling us they exist can seem to agree on. Being bi- is now the flat-earther of gender theory and the Seattle City Council is just trying to keep up. The moving goal posts.

Asexuality is not a thing in itself. It is merely the lack of natural sexual or romantic desire and is little understood. The condition needs no legal protection and almost no one sees it as a sexual orientation. It is a human aberration.

But Seattle’s city fathers and mothers didn’t just stop at creating non-existent legally protected identities. They expanded the very definition of sexual orientation and what constitutes a family.

Gay activists have long insisted on a “born this way” conception of sexual orientation in order to justify their political goals. After all, how can you blame someone for simply being the way they were born? But no science has ever established this claim. And the LGBT movement has been moving away from that tired claim for some time now. One prominent gay leader complained in The New York Times just this summer that today “being gay begins to look less like an inborn trait and more like a chosen ideology or aesthetic.”

To keep up with this shift, Seattle’s unanimously passed legal protections recognize that sexual orientation consist not of a citizen’s biology, but their “attitudes, preferences, and practices pertaining to sexual orientation.” This new understanding will be reflected throughout the city’s civil codes. Seattle is also now the largest municipality to give legal recognition and protection to polygamous and polyamorous sexual pairings.

Seattle’s Office of the City Clerk explains all this was done by “amending the definition of the sexual orientation protected class to recognize gender identities outside the gender binary, recognize pansexuality and asexuality as orientations, and include consensual relationships with multiple partners as an element of attitudes, preferences, and practices pertaining to sexual orientation.”

City law will be changed to reflect these new manufactured realities, taking effect June 1, 2027.

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Polygamist Leading Texas Libertarians Falsely Defends Practice as Biblical

Texas does everything in a big way. As such, they are a political powerhouse. 

There is a very consequential U.S. Senate race going on in the Lone Star state featuring a candidate that has some very troubling public views on all the things Focus on the Family cares deeply about.

But a lesser known, yet very influential, Texas party also has some very concerning issues surrounding it. That is the Texas Libertarian Party. A man named Andrew Amelang is the chair of that party. He is also a proud polygamist. He also holds a key leadership position in an organization called Biblical Families. He does so as a polygamist, what he calls “plural marriage.”

They clearly have a very wrong view of what biblical families are.

Mr. Amelang’s official biography at the so-called “Biblical Families” website explains,

Andrew and Cheryl have been married over 22 years; Ginny and Ann both joined the family 18 years ago. Add twelve children (ages 35 to 7) and six grandchildren (and three dogs and three cats) and it’s never, ever, boring.

Amelang has one legal wife and two live-in girlfriends. Twelve children live in this home. And he calls this biblical. His bio also states, “In addition to leading and coordinating worship at Biblical Families retreats, Andrew counsels plural families and family members, as well as those considering plural marriage.” Amelang’s organization claims to do this in obedience to Christ.

Of course, this is not true. Christ is crystal clear on his ethics of sexuality and marriage. They are firmly rooted in the divine creation telos and Matthew 19 and Mark 10 make this perfectly clear. A man leaves all others and cleaves, holds fast to his wife, becoming one flesh with her, and her with him. This beautiful mystery can only happen in faithful monogamy. It is impossible to become one flesh with several people.

This also highlights an important problem with libertarianism. Libertarianism seems attractive to some Christians and conservatives. They favor smaller government and individual freedom. 

Yet, clearly Christianity holds that government has a fundamental and God-ordained role in human civilization and public life. This is deeply rooted in a Christian theology of being human, the nature of liberty and personal responsibility. There are limits on one’s freedom and liberty because we are fallen creatures and we have a public responsibility for our behavior to our fellow citizens, particularly the youngest among us. Libertarianism rejects this essential fact of public life together. This is why libertarianism is more problematic than progressive liberalism in many ways. It seeks to remove essential personal and social boundaries that are indispensable to civil society, the things conservatism should always seek to conserve. 

This is why it is wholly reasonable that a man who flouts both the law, the natural and divine order of marriage would chair the libertarian party of one of the largest states in our nation.

Ideas have consequences and bad ideas do real damage. Libertarianism and family redefinition based on adult desires are damaging.

Photo from “Biblical Families” website.