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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]quaker bill
(8,224 posts)On a personal basis, I have never had a problem finding the path to the doghouse with one wife. My estimation is that with more than one wife I would never be fully out of the doghouse.
While I am fine with different strokes for different folks, I do not believe that there is any momentum behind a movement to legalize polygamy.
The right to marry another person has been ruled a fundamental civil right. The right to marry into a group of people has not been ruled as such. These are sufficiently different things.
While personally I think consenting adults should be allowed to sort out their social and sexual arrangements in the manner they choose without state intervention, I am not clear how the current decision implies movement in that direction. The current decision leaves traditional marriage process more or less intact, the only difference is that the Clerk does not check the gender mix before issuing the same license they have been issuing for years.