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Overnight Video: The Damage Done

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)8/11/2010 10:14:45 am PDT

re: #221 reine.de.tout

I think it was the lens you read it with, Reine.

Polygamy is fundamentally different. Marriage, per se, can’t apply to more than one person. That’s what marriage is.

So when we talk about legalizing polygamy, it’s actually a bit of a misnomer; it’s not possible to take our current laws and have them apply to anything other than a two-person relationship. The laws simply won’t function.

Legalizing gay marriage = not denying an already existing legal framework to gay couples.

Polygamy = entirely new laws, since current marriage laws assume that there’s only two people involved and this has a fundamental effect on all the rights, priviledges, etc. granted by the state of marriage.