Gay Marriage views at Apolyton

[Capt Dizle]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Should gay people be allowed to get divorced?

What about gay bigamy?

[Drogue]

Originally posted by pchang
What I really want is for marriage to be a religious thing and completely removed from the political arena. I want marriage laws to be rewritten in a gender neutral civil union type of way. That way, religions can say to gays "no, you cannot be married within our church", but gays would still get the same legal rights and benefits that married people get today (tax, insurance, decision making, survivor stuff, etc.).

Exactly!

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Gay marriage and Polygamy is ok to me.

Why, Imran, how modest of you!

Who knew that your fans crossed gender and sexuality divides?

Anyways, I think you're being an unreconstructed male chauvinist- if you can have polygamy then why not polyandry too? It does take place in several cultures across the globe.

Although why any sensible heterosexual woman would want more than one husband is beyond me. Imagine, two people not taking out the rubbish, or leaving half-eaten takeaways in the refrigerator, or twice the number of people watching golf or football on television when you want to watch that Susan Hayward film....

[alva]

None of my bussiness how people decide to live together...

[Jamski]

Make hetrosexual marriage illegal! Ban the churches! Burn them!

REVOLUTION!!!!

Ummm...

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...that's to say I don't personally have a problem with gay polygamy in the USA. Let them Yanks do what they do best, eh?

-Jam

[Q Classic]

gay polygamy...

wouldn't that just be a big lesbian marriage group?
thus, lesbian polygamy, gay polyandry?

[Hueij]

Why the distinction between the US and "Elsewhere"? And what is a bannana??

[Dauphin]

I may be wrong, but I think those people saying polygamy are not using the word in its "many women" sense but rather its "many marriages" sense. Hence making a point of saying Polyandry is little more than semantics.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Big Crunch
I may be wrong, but I think those people saying polygamy are not using the word in its "many women" sense but rather its "many marriages" sense. Hence making a point of saying Polyandry is little more than semantics.

I don't think so- Imran's a Muslim and familiar with polygamy, and in the Christianized United States, the Mormons are the main representatives of those who practise/d polygamy. In the Judaeo-Christian and Islamic worlds, multiple wives and concubines have been a feature common to all three monotheistic faiths.

Polyandry is less common,and more associated with 'tribal' cultures, but I suspect people rarely consider that a woman might want or have more than one husband.

[alva]

Although why any sensible heterosexual woman would want more than one husband is beyond me. Imagine, two people not taking out the rubbish, or leaving half-eaten takeaways in the refrigerator, or twice the number of people watching golf or football on television when you want to watch that Susan Hayward film....

Same goes for having more then one woman

[Dauphin]

I guess I figured if people are liberal enough to 'allow' homosexual marriage then male-female equality was a given.

[Aeson]

I was speaking about first hand experience in Utah, but my use (and understanding) of the term polygamy was "many marriages". I wasn't even aware of the term polyandry before now, and have always interpreted polygamy as a term irregardless of the gender composition of the married group.

[chequita guevara]

Molly, poly-gamy means many spouses. Poly-gyny specifically refers to many wives. You seem to know what poly-andry means.

[Thorn]

I may be wrong, but I think those people saying polygamy are not using the word in its "many women" sense but rather its "many marriages" sense. Hence making a point of saying Polyandry is little more than semantics.

Something like that, anyways, I would have put that in the poll but I thought polyandry meant multiple relationship not in relation to marriage opposite of monoganous relationships. My bad. I guess women could want mulitiple husbands to help support them or something. Please lets not kill each other over semantics.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Thorn
Please lets not kill each other over semantics.

Why not? It's as good as any other reason to kill someone.