I didn't mean to be rude, so I hope I didn't come of as such. It seemed obvious to me because in the context I was talking about them being "ok with anything" after several decades passing in a tongue-in-cheek sort of way, while in the first one I was describing a proposal I'd like to see implemented right away and how people would currently feel about it.
It wouldn't make mainstream "conservatives" happy,
Mainstream conservatives will be happy with it too. They aren't very clever that way, you can change almost anything you want and 30 years later they won't question it seriously any-more. ;)
As to the meaning of the quotation marks in the first one, I put them there because I think conservatives aren't very good at conserving much of anything.
A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.
--William F. Buckley, Jr. in National Review (1955)
The entire movement he and those like him helped create, has only proven itself capable of standing athwart history and yelling “Retreat!”. The politicians associated with that intellectual group are best characterized as standing behind history, yelling: "Wait! Let my voters catch up!"
"It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea." - Robert Anton Wilson
A thought occurred to me today as I skimmed an article in a rationality forum where the subject of gay marriage cropped up; seeing as the issue has been hotly contested in various public fora and especially the courts, what about poly? After all, many if not all the arguments for gay marriage apply to poly marriage as well.
Questions for LWers who are currently in a such a relationship, or have an opinion to share:
Do polies want to marry each other or do such relationships not lend themselves to permanence above a threshold of partners? Should polies campaign for the right for a civil union anyway? what are the up and down sides of this? etc