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Among the smaller pro-polyamory organizations: the Polyamory Association, the Polyamory Society, and Loving More, which publishes a magazine by the same name. Two organizations that advocate for first cousin marriage, C.U.D.D.L.E. International and Cousin Couples, received a huge boost in 2003 when the Journal of Genetic Counseling discredited the widely held belief that the offspring of first cousin marriages have significantly more birth defects. The Institute for 21st Century Relationships, another umbrella group, hosts well-attended seminars on activism and media relations for non-gay sexual minorities.

As these groups continue to earn publicity, gay marriage proponents will increasingly see their argument attacked on both flanks. Liberals and progressives will begin to chastise those activists who sell their principles of sexual liberation down the river in the name of media spin. Those who decide to align themselves with these groups risk being viewed as extremists. Either way, it's a good guess that, like it or not, gay marriage proponents are about to start sliding down that slippery slope.

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• Beyond Gay Marriage
• Down the Slippery Slope
• Homosexual Marriage: A Slippery Slope?
• Slippery Slop
• Gay Marriage
• Racing Down the Slippery Slope

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