Far Down the Slippery Slope: Lesbian Polygamy Emerges in Massachusetts

Posted on | April 23, 2014 | 94 Comments

Left to right: Doll, Brynn and Kitten Young.

The world’s only ‘married’ lesbian threesome are expecting their first child.
Doll, Kitten and Brynn, from Massachusetts, were joined together in a marriage-style ceremony last August and are expecting a daughter in July.
Kitten, 27, is pregnant after undergoing IVF treatment using an anonymous sperm donor, and the trio eventually plan to have three children — one for each of them.
The plan at the moment is that Kitten will bear all the children — possibly using her wives’ eggs and donated sperm — but they are open to other options, such as adoption.
Brynn, 34, says: ‘The hope is to have three kids altogether. We always joke that the children should never outnumber the parents.’
Doll, Kitten and Brynn Young married in a ceremony in August 2013, when each of their fathers walked them down the aisle. All three women wore white wedding gowns and exchanged rings.
The so-called ‘throuple’ worked with a specialist family lawyer who drew up the paperwork and drafted the ceremony so that all three of them were obligated and bound to each other .
While Brynn and Kitten are legally married, Doll is handfasted to both so the threesome are as equally married to each other as legally possible.

In other words, this three-way lesbian marriage is not legally recognized by state or federal law — yet. But it would be interesting to see any advocate of gay marriage make a legal argument against polygamous marriage. By the way, “handfasting” is a neo-pagan marriage ceremony, common among devotees of Wicca. (Once upon a time, witches were hanged in Massachusetts.) This story about Brynn, Doll and Kitten is so weird, I’m tempted to dismiss it as a publicity stunt or, perhaps, a desperate bid for a reality TV series contract, but who can doubt how far this fanatical devotion to Equality and Progress has gone?

You might smile if you recognize the irony in this recent headline:

Documentary Chronicles Lesbian
Couple’s Struggle with Infertility

Alas, the heartache of infertile lesbian marriages! The couple’s wedding in 2007 was featured in the New York Times. When Jessica Antonellis married Alexis Casano, they hyphenated their surnames so that they are both now Mrs. Antonellis-Casano. The documentary about their “struggle with infertility” has been praised and shown at film festivals. Spoiler: Alexis eventually got pregnant and has since given birth again, so that Mrs. & Mrs. Antonellis-Casano now have two sons.

Of course, you’re probably saying: “Two sons? Isn’t it going to be difficult for those two boys growing up in a lesbian household? Aren’t they likely to become terribly confused?” Not to worry: (a) They live in New York City, which recently elected Bill de Blasio mayor, so being “terribly confused” is more or less normal there; and (b) If the offspring of Mrs. & Mrs. Antonellis-Casano develop any uncertainty about their gender, they can attend Camp Aranu’tiq.

Oh, you haven’t heard about Camp Aranu’tiq? It’s “a nonprofit program serving trans & gender-variant youth ages 6-18. We plan to serve 300+ campers this year!” So if your transvestite first-graders need a summer camp, you know where to send them. The founder of Camp Aranu’tiq, Nick Teich, was invited to the White House for an LGBT leadership meeting in 2012. Camp Aranu’tiq was the subject of a Boston Globe feature story:

Teich, who lives in Newton, started the nonprofit camp in Connecticut in 2010. A transgender male, he had a personal interest in providing a safe, fun place for kids who live on the outskirts of society. Teich loved the camp in Maine he had attended as a girl. He was there for 13 years, as a camper, counselor in training, counselor, and finally, member of the leadership team.
Some of those camp colleagues then began their own weeklong charity camp, where Teich volunteered for three summers. But five years ago, when he announced he was transitioning into becoming a man, he got a call from the head of that charity camp, with a lawyer on the line. “You can’t come back for the good of the kids,” he was told.
“It took me months to get over my serious anger,” said Teich, 29, a social worker who is pursuing a doctorate in social policy from Brandeis. “Then I said, you know what? I know a lot about camp, and there are kids who don’t fit into society, gender-wise. Why don’t I just start my own camp?”

No, that’s not a photo of the Camp Aranu’tiq staff. My apologies if that caused any unnecessary confusion, but confusion is everywhere nowadays, as we go Slouching Toward Angrogyny.

Category: Feminism, Gays, Marriage

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94 Responses to “Far Down the Slippery Slope: Lesbian Polygamy Emerges in Massachusetts”

RKae
April 23rd, 2014 @ 6:13 pm

Did I call it or did I call it?!!! I told everyone this was the next “new way to be crazy” on the horizon.

So, here we go! Let’s watch the “cool churches” show how hip, modern and tolerant they are.
MeasureForMeasure
April 23rd, 2014 @ 6:26 pm

Brynn looks like she might have had a sex change operation and their comments make them sound that they want to have three children-so each one can “own” one. Charming. I wonder5 if their dads del any embarassment in escorting them down the aisle
M. Thompson
April 23rd, 2014 @ 6:33 pm

Not #$#% surprised.

And soon, all this will come shuddering to a halt, and these oddballs will careen into what the wages of sin actually are.

As for the idea of polygyny, I’m simply of the opinion that it makes women into status symbols for men, and if you aren’t in the correct group, a man has no chance of having kids.
BigEffinDeal!
April 23rd, 2014 @ 7:00 pm

What’s the big deal? As a society of grown adults do we really need to listen to the dictates of an old book written by men four millenia ago, and the sky god they claim to speak for? We can make our own rules. Next thing we need to do is amend the US Constitution which is nothing more than a document written by rich white slave owners, and no longer speaks for the majority.
laura_PH
April 23rd, 2014 @ 7:15 pm

Kudos to Teich for starting her/his own camp rather than suing the other one. I guess I’m damning with faint praise, here, but really, that’s kind of refreshing given the typical LGBTwhateverinitialstheyaddedthisweek response.
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April 23rd, 2014 @ 7:15 pm

“As a society of grown adults do we really need to listen to the dictates of an old book written by men four millenia ago, and the sky god they claim to speak for?”

Not guilty your honor.

As one can admit, one’s laws were the genesis of normative legal theory, and “BigEffinDeal” only shows the expanse of his/her/its theological illiteracy.

“Next thing we need to do is amend the US Constitution which is nothing more than a document written by rich white slave owners, and no longer speaks for the majority”

It’s not under the remit of anyone to “amend” (in your terms) the constitution, not least when he/she/it are chronically unaware of the “irrelevant conclusion” fallacy.

Irrespective, if you were the paragon you claim to be, you would not engage this active comments delinquency. Driven, it seems, by little more than pique.
laura_PH
April 23rd, 2014 @ 7:17 pm

Hear about this recent sermon by Andy Stanley? He’s getting ready to make the trip over to the cool kids table. http://juicyecumenism.com/2014/04/17/andy-stanleys-troubling-new-sermon/
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RS
April 23rd, 2014 @ 7:23 pm

“It took me months to get over my serious anger,” said Teich, 29, a social worker who is pursuing a doctorate in social policy from Brandeis. (Emphasis added).

I wonder if it was involved in Hirsi Ali business.

As for the rest of it, it’s obvious that the child in this case is a mere prop in a Progressive Realist drama.
Evi L. Bloggerlady
April 23rd, 2014 @ 7:33 pm

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hHx1-HKokt0/U1hLQgI9AXI/AAAAAAAAg84/PGmk47RKdS0/s1600/Threes-Company-logo1.jpg I do see a TV contract in their future: retred of this perhaps?
robertstacymccain
April 23rd, 2014 @ 7:39 pm

Yeah, I actually Googled “Brynn” to see if there was any record of a sex change. Those shoulders look suspiciously masculine.
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April 23rd, 2014 @ 8:40 pm

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DaveO
April 23rd, 2014 @ 8:43 pm

“[A]nonymous sperm donor” – you mean the future Child Spport ATM when the so-called ‘throuple’ becomes a middle-aged unwed mom? Will be interesting to see how Massachussetts handles the eventual lawsuits over inheritance rights, debtor obligations, custody rights over the child in the inevitable split, taxes and hundreds of other federal, state, and local laws, rules and regulations that govern marriage.
DaveO
April 23rd, 2014 @ 8:45 pm

With guest appearances by the Octomom and whatever Housewives haven’t landed a contract or a jail term.
FenelonSpoke
April 23rd, 2014 @ 9:00 pm

I don;t get it.” Big Effin Deal” is responding to themselves but forgot to change their nick?
Adobe_Walls
April 23rd, 2014 @ 9:24 pm

There are no “slippery slopes” merely cliffs we step off of. The outcroppings that smack us on the way down create the illusion of sliding.
laura_PH
April 23rd, 2014 @ 9:27 pm

Who knew that Glenn Greenwald commented here?
RKae
April 23rd, 2014 @ 9:43 pm

The point is: Those of us who are smart enough not to make ourselves into our own gods should not be forced to participate in this race to see who can come up with the looniest new “family.”

Guaranteed: these perverted women will seek out the nearest Christian baker and force a cake out of him or her with the full backing of the legal system.
Patricia
April 23rd, 2014 @ 9:57 pm

God help us
robscottw
April 23rd, 2014 @ 10:01 pm

Well the Mormoms can go back to bigamy now too. The feminists can’t have any logical reason to oppose that.
Of course Islam has already gotten a pass from the progressives on their plural (one man, many women) marraiges.
Whats the excuse going to be for the rest of us men who want more than one woman?
Guest
April 23rd, 2014 @ 10:05 pm

They look happier than most heterosexual married couples these days. I have no idea why what other people do at home is such an issue for conservatives?
Guest
April 23rd, 2014 @ 10:09 pm

Religion is no longer of any use, and now is nothing more than a giant impediment to social progress. A modern, sophisticated people shouldn’t be basing codes of conduct, and laws on the writings and mythology of a 4000 year old desert tribe. It’s absurd. Let’s move on.
Zohydro
April 23rd, 2014 @ 10:10 pm

I was wagering on age-of-consent laws next… Perhaps the debacle in the case of the lovely darling Ms Hunt has changed Gay Inc.’s priorities!
Guest
April 23rd, 2014 @ 10:12 pm

We are our own Gods, and always have been. We are living on a lonely planet, in the middle of a giant, hostile universe, and because of that alone (and the fact that we’re stuck here) we should have the privilege to do whatever the hell we feel like doing.
Mm
April 23rd, 2014 @ 10:19 pm

Oh, I don’t know, maybe conservatives are discussing it because it’s a news article published in an online paper with the biggest circulation in the world? You know who else looks happy in a lot of photos? Charles Manson. We all know that how people look in posed photos is what REALLY matters.
Zohydro
April 23rd, 2014 @ 10:30 pm

I don’t subscribe to that 4000 year old mythology either…

My lineage may go back a billion years! In homage to all of my ancestors, as a member of a modern, sophisticated society, I’m hoping for another billion years! The homos have no role in that eschatology, mate!
WhitePrivilege
April 23rd, 2014 @ 11:30 pm

Please, shut up, you whiney, privileged, white bread, boomer cretin. I’m beyond sick of you people, and the five year hissy fit you have thrown over the eradication of your white, male, privilege.
JeffS
April 23rd, 2014 @ 11:35 pm

“…” replied to BiggEffinDeal.

Whoever “…” is.
DaveO
April 23rd, 2014 @ 11:36 pm

Hah! Since you’re a god, why don’t you hit up the RSM Shoeleather Fund with a never-ending stream of cash? Or, something easier: go bring back all those drowned Korean kids. You’re a god. Go. Do it.
ZZZZZZZZ
April 23rd, 2014 @ 11:36 pm

zzzzzzzz…..
WhitePrivilege
April 23rd, 2014 @ 11:38 pm

Same goes for you, you worthless, parasitic, entitled, boomer cocksucker.
DaveO
April 23rd, 2014 @ 11:38 pm

You hate white privilige, but you name yourself ‘WhitePrivilige’. Off your schizo meds? Seriously though, go tell Mommy you got a zinger in at some old folks and she’ll tuck you in for the night.
DaveO
April 23rd, 2014 @ 11:56 pm

They do look wonderfully happy, but the question is not that tired old trope about conservatives in the bedroom (you should read the bedroom laws – all written by Dems, and then there’s Obama’s NSA), the question is: can these 3 women, using a model of marriage that has been tried before on every continent except Antartica, MAINTAIN and SUSTAIN a marriage that will last ‘until death do them part’ 40, 50, even 60 years from today? Do the mental and emotional factors that went into their marriage, which required them to go outside the marriage to find another partner – will that be enough? And what of the laws that govern all the legalities of marriage and partnerships? This marriage isn’t about the bedroom – we got internet, we can find what 3 lesbians do in the bedroom – this is about following Alistair Crowley’s dictum: “Do as thou wilt, that is the whole of the law.” Crowley merely updated Satan who first promised Eve that when she ate of the forbidden fruit “…your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.” Genesis 3:5
The next step is child-marriage with a concurrent loosening of the law in regards to rape. This is true rape culture, not the horsecrap the Prognazis feed to the children.
DaveO
April 23rd, 2014 @ 11:57 pm

No excuses, just a question: how many times can a wallet and a retirement check be divided? If you came up with ‘ramen’ you win!
Evi L. Bloggerlady
April 24th, 2014 @ 12:14 am

Your lineage does go back a billion years. Except at that point you were probably a bacteria.
Evi L. Bloggerlady
April 24th, 2014 @ 12:14 am

She could play football.
Evi L. Bloggerlady
April 24th, 2014 @ 12:16 am

Three lesbians and a baby?
trangbang68
April 24th, 2014 @ 2:06 am

A eunuch, a sheep and a necrophiliac walk into a bar…stop me if you’ve heard this one already
Käthe
April 24th, 2014 @ 4:09 am

“Senior Software Designer and Engineer, Brynn had been married twice before to women” …I’m gonna take that as a “yep, definitely a dude.

There are so many “really a lesbian” males who work in software engineering and are multiply divorced…
Mm
April 24th, 2014 @ 7:41 am

Get help for that pedophilia.
scarymatt
April 24th, 2014 @ 8:08 am

Don’t h8. Those bacteria were born that way!
tlk244182
April 24th, 2014 @ 8:52 am

How many years ’til gay marriage is absurd?
tlk244182
April 24th, 2014 @ 9:03 am

TL;DR, but supressing that kind of nonsense is what the Inquisition was for, i.e. for the difficult defense of Reason.
ZZZZZZZZ
April 24th, 2014 @ 9:39 am

zzzzzzzz…..
prospector
April 24th, 2014 @ 10:16 am

So , that means I could take someone else’ s life and since I am a god should not face any consequences. Moral relevancy is a slippery slope don’t you think. Society needs a set of unchanging morals to remain stable. But of course people like you think you should be able to do whatever you wish no matter who it hurts.
prospector
April 24th, 2014 @ 10:22 am

Once it became a news article it was no longer confined to their home now was it. I have no doubt they will want special treatment and taxpayers money for their special union.
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Phil_McG
April 24th, 2014 @ 11:15 am

We need a new word to describe this exciting new development of lesbian polygamy.

How about “Trezzers”?
RKae
April 24th, 2014 @ 11:34 am

Not a slippery slope. It’s a sheer cliff.