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Is there any good reason for the State to play any part whatsoever in marriage outside of legal contract enforcement? Whether the marital contract is between a man and a woman or among 5 straight women, 3 gay men, and a bi-sexual midget, how consenting adults wish to structure their households should be no one's business but those directly involved. The idea of polygamy seems to meet with disfavor regardless of a person's political leanings. Assuming all parties are truly consenting, why is that?
There could easily be a "default" contract dealing with all legal matters in more usual varieties of marriage and any more esoteric unions (like the silliness above) would need custom contracts. What other involvement is required by the State? Why isn't free marriage part and parcel of free thinking?
Polygamy isn't really a problem in a moral sense. Polyamory works very well for some people.
The problems are two-fold (though those are hardly the reasons why it is illegal):
1.) Traditionally, polygamy is deeply misogynistic, especially when justified by religion and religious customs. It's just one man collecting as many women as he can. At best there are requirements that he can really afford to keep them or require consent by the other wives - and that can be coorced.
2.) It's a legal mess if you want to account for all common or even possible permutations in poly-relationships. Marriage laws are written with two people in mind. That's why same-sex marriage is a non-issue. Just make it gender neutral. But if you add more people to it, you create all sorts of issues that aren't even foreseeable.
I can see maybe coming to some sort of notarized private contract between the parties, but dealing with polygamy in law is impossible except for the patriarchal setup you see in Islam or history.
But I always have to laugh at all the Christians who go on about "traditional marriage". Biblical marriage is clearly polygamy. The modern concept of marriage is at most 150 years old.
I love this dude, funny as his avatar
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