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In reply to the discussion: The gay marriage decision has put us in uncharted waters with regard to polygamy [View all]herding cats
(19,565 posts)I've been fighting for equality for same sex marriage for that long, and that fell within the current laws. Rewriting the entire legal system will take much longer.
If this is a personal cause for you, I'm going to make a few suggestions.
Don't try and ride the coattails of the same sex marriage ruling. Legally, they're worlds apart. No matter what you may think, they're not even vaguely similar.
Work to gain public opinion. Get that fool and his wives off TV as soon as possible. Most young people don't like them.
Unless you think the RW are going to champion your cause, and not make it religious. Hint: They're not going to.
You have an uphill battle, no one has done your cause any public favors in my lifetime. Honestly, it's been the opposite. Something I was ambivalent to, I now find distasteful thanks to what I've learned about the topic and how it's been abused by various religions.
You have to overcome that. You have to prove that polygamy and polyandry are good for our current society. Not that any person is fighting for polyandry, but it does go hand in hand with polygamy. You can't have one without the other, legally speaking. Which makes it all the harder to convince society of, people don't like the concept of women having more than one man. Even now. Let alone making it a legal status where you rewrite all our laws to allow benefits to such a relationship.
Like I said, a long and expensive road ahead of you. Decades, and decades of fighting, not 15-20 years. That's why you don't see it happening now in other progressive countries. It's too deeply entwined with far right religious ideology to be considered progressive. And, since no one wants to consider polyandry because that goes against the mainstream doctrine.
You folks need new spokespeople, and a new message. So far, you're sucking bad.