To Infinity and Beyond!
There has been some general grousing about the gay rights movement's seemingly myopic focus on marriage. You can count me among those who question the apparent strategy of straining at gnats and crying wolf. "We must defeat the Federal Marriage Amendment!!" Defeat it? It was DOA.
Some have taken their grousing one step further. The folk at BeyondMarriage.org have released a public statement more or less stating that marriage is too narrowly defined and GLBT folk should be pressing for broader definitions to allow for a wider variety of living circumstances including, but not limited to, "Committed, loving households in which there is more than one conjugal partner."1
Oh, yeah. That will mollify the religious right. You thought they were hysterical before, they'll be positively apoplectic now.
Just from the first few paragraphs—I'll admit I haven't read the entire statement—it sounds like a revival of the 60s free love movement, a movement which, in case no one has been paying attention, fell flat on its face. Maybe it will succeed this time, because, you know, the current socio-political atmosphere is so conducive to such an idea right now.
I guess this could be some sort of subtle reverse psychology strategy. BeyondMarriage.org actually makes gay marriage look good.