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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It won't be for long. there is no legal basis for saying the old right to "one man one woman" marriage also includes "two men" but not "one man, two women," etc. Anti polygamy laws will be struck down on constitutional grounds soon enough. [/quote]

Disagree.  Who decides whether to pull the plug if you are on life support?

If there's multiple husbands, who is assumed to be the father?

If one party exits the polygamous marriage after a few years, how do you allocate his/her portion of the marital property?

Nope, marriage is a legal construct between two individuals.  We don't care about what's in their pants.  [b]But we do have to limit it to two parties.[/b]

Want more than that, start a corporation.  Then you'll all be one person!!![/quote]

If marriage is just a legal construct, then why should it be limited to two parties?  We've already dispensed with the traditional definition, so limiting marriage to two people is just as arbitrary as limiting marriage to a man and woman.

Face it, the gay marriage crowd rendered the word marriage essentially meaningless and opened the door to legalized polygamy.  It's funny to watch them run away from it.  Shouldn't "love win"?

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Only if someone share's their liberal cultural and political values.  They associate polygamy with a conservative, breakaway sect of Mormonism and therefore oppose it.[/quote]

Agree. The whole argument against polygamy has to do with the face of polygamy. They are people who are considered odd because they attach religion to something that we might do too, but more because of liberal values. For instance, polyamory is not frowned upon as polygamy is. I am a minority woman, and I am supposed to hate fundamentalist Mormons because they are said to be sexist and racists. Those qualities, even if true, do not make it so that we can deny them their rights. Years back, in some parts of this country, you could spy on someone, find them in bad with a person of the same sex,then prosecute them and take their kids away. That was sick. If a man decides to marry more than one woman, what gives me the right to chase him around to hear him utter the word "wife" to describe more than one woman. What kind of country are we?[/quote]

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