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No, Same-Sex Marriage Isn’t a Slippery Slope to Polygamy
Last week the Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf and Outward’s Mark Joseph Stern once again stopped typing and instead debated conservatives and “religious freedom,” Oregon’s failure to defend the state’s ban on same-sex marriage, the NBA’s treatment of Donald Sterling, and—in the clip selected below—how polygamous relationships differ from same-sex marriages in terms of the legal protections the U.S. Constitution provides them.
The entire Bloggingheads conversation lasts an hour and a quarter.