There is no slippery slope...?

According to this article in the Huffington Post (shared with me courtesy of my wife, who presumably likes to see me disgruntled), California (where else?) lawmakers are considering a law that would allow children to have multiple legal parents.

I can see a possible good aspect to that law for those who are divorced and remarried, who live in situations where a child might have parents and step-parents.  That seems legitimate, although we could debate whether that sort of situation requires any additional legislation than that already provided.

The more interesting and subversive element to this potential law is that it might allow people to "create" any sort of "family" design they like.  And, obviously, this is a law that tends toward polygamy.

This is the result of the slippery slope we have seen in the rapid process of redefining the meaning of terms in modern society.  It is also the product of overly active legislators who no longer see their job as creating the boundaries within which society must operate, but as setting aside all boundaries via legislation. 

As Anonymous 5 points out in reference to the Catholic Church, the Church (acting as God's lawgiver on earth) sets out the guardrails in which we must conform our conduct.  That is generally true for legislation in the civil realm as well.  You may not drive more the 70 miles per hour, you may not drive after drinking, you may not shoot at other people. 

This sort of "activist" legislation is not prescribing a boundary -- it is redefining terms that are already defined in a manner heretofore considered ridiculous.  So, you may not drive more than 70 miles per hour, but 70 does not necessarily, in all cases, mean what you think 70 means, it means what we say it means.  And the same goes for miles and hours. 

You see, this is the slippery slope of relativity... and all this has happened in our lifetimes.  Where are we headed?