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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.  But we do have to limit it to two parties.

Want more than that, start a corporation.  Then you'll all be one person!!![/quote]
Actually, the sharia law has covered the property/custody issues pretty well, except for the pulling the plug thing.  It's one thing to disagree personally with polygamy, but it's incorrect  to say that property/inheritance issues can't be sorted out in this context, because they can.

Again, I'm not bringing this up as an example of how things ought to be done, but as how they CAN be done.[/quote]

Multiple wives and inheritance are covered by sharia law, and I suppose it works okay if a woman is prohibited from working.  And if she is properly supported by her family.

http://www.islamicislamic.com/inheritance.htm

In this country, where women do work, we would not import sharia law unchanged (not what we would do in any case). [/quote]
I don't see a relationship at all - under sharia law, women are not obligated to share their income with the family, so whatever they earn remains with them. It doesn't figure into the inheritance.

Furthermore, no forms of sharia prohibit women from working. It may condition her employment on the husband's permission, but it doesn't ban women's employment. I mean, there's lots of bad things about sharia, but treatment of women's money isn't one of them.[/quote]

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