Sentence:  Repulsion over polygamy is so ingrained in the American consciousness — <WSD>analogizing</WSD> it to slavery, the Republican platform of 1856 called it one of the country's “twin relics of barbarism” — that judgmentally reveling in the exotic perversions of “Big Love” feels like something on the order of a national right. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To treat one thing as analogous to another.