...therefore no gay couples should be allowed to marry because monogamy is a defining characteristic of marriage and if some of you people aren't monogamous then none of you people should be allowed to marry.

That's one of the religious right's chief arguments—one of it's chief failing, flailing arguments—against marriage equality. Never mind that lesbian couples are better at monogamy than male couples and opposite-sex couples. (Or maybe they're worse at non-monogamy?) Lots of gay couples aren't monogamous so gay people shouldn't be able to marry. Period. The End. Bless your heart!

So, yeah, somehow I missed this story about a website for Christian swingers published earlier this year at the Christian Post:

A new dating website called CHRISTIANSwingers is sending ripples throughout the Christian community for offering "faithful couples" the opportunity to "hookup" with each other. One mental health professional warns the practice will lead to nothing but "pain." The oxymoronic website brazenly declares that it was "designed to cater to the needs of those like you: devout Christian couples who still want to have an active love life and share it with another, in good faith!"

My first reaction: a site for Christian swingers really ought to be called "Christian Swingle." My second reaction: What a one-sided hit piece! Christian swingers are outside what passes for the conservative Christian "mainstream," of course, and I wouldn't expect the Christian Post to enthuse about the site or Christian swingers. But the author of the piece didn't bother to get a quote from anyone at the CHRISTIANSwingers and only negative comments left on the site's Facebook page were used in the story. And what else was missing? Any suggestion that Christian swingers aren't really married or that all Christians everywhere should be prevented from marrying because some Christians somewhere aren't monogamous. That logic only applies to same-sex couples.

And, hey, good to know that only open relationships end in "pain." Monogamy is apparently the morphine drip of relationship models—no pain ever!