Should polygamy be illegal?

[Vince278]

I like my paradigm where it is right now.
Poly-anything is inherently wrong (and illegal).

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Vince278
I like my paradigm where it is right now.
Poly-anything is inherently wrong (and illegal).

Just because it's illegal, doesn't mean the law that illegalizes it, is a just law.

You could have argued in the 1950s and 60s then, that racial integration would be wrong because it was illegal.



You made me play devil's advocate for those who find polygamy and polyandry acceptable. Thanks a lot.

[Vince278]

Originally posted by MrFun
You made me play devil's advocate for those who find polygamy and polyandry acceptable. Thanks a lot.

I have a knack for bringing people over to the dark side.

Personally, I believe anything goes between consenting adults but laws are there for a reason, even if the reason isn't evident. Laws, of course, can change as society changes. Still, polygamy is a bad idea.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Vince278

Still, polygamy is a bad idea.

agreed

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Sava



It seems as if you were just responding to the last sentence of the piece of the post that you quoted from me.

Dude, that was not the last sentence of the post. Did you read what you write?

Originally posted by Sava
Maybe if you took what I said in the entire context, you would understand my meaning... instead of splitting hairs over my exact wording of that sentence.

I think I described my position quite well. Do you require some sort of clarification? Or did you just feel like arguing semantics?

I like arguing semantics

I understand what you said. You posited that a marriage should be binding as per a contract that is mutually agreed upon. Though all you are doing is just moving it from the law governing marriage to the law governing contracts. I don't see the point.

For starters, marriage has a lot to do with things like money, social status, and a whole lot of sundry issues. I don't see how you can possibly cover all grounds with a contract. OTOH, there are a whole body of precedents in marriage law if and when a court needs to deal with some of these issues.

Originally posted by Sava
And if marriage is "pretty much a purely legal matter", then why is the gay marriage issue in America such a divisive one? Maybe because marriage ISN'T a purely legal matter and there are social and religious concerns as well.

Silly red herring.

Do you want to go cut down the tallest tree in the forest with it?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Though all you are doing is just moving it from the law governing marriage to the law governing contracts. I don't see the point.

The point is quite obvious isn't it? If it is just a contractual relation, then gays would already have the 'right' to marry. The state would have no block on it.

[Dis]

the reason why gays can't marry is because people are homophobic. It has nothing to do with religious or moral values. They are afraid of "gayness" spreading.

[Dis]

update: Polygamist leader is arrested just outside of Las Vegas

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/POLYGAMIST_ARRESTED?SITE=NVLAS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

This guy has 40 wives and 60 children. Some of the marriages he forced involved girls as young as 13 years old.

His father had 65 children!

[Urban Ranger]

Cut his balls off!

[Wezil]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

In the law school class I took on First Amendment law, the class came to a conclusion that polygamy bans couldn't survive under the Constitution.

A conclusion our Feds have come to wrt our Charter as well.

[chequita guevara]

Frankly, between me, the wife, and two cats, there isn't enough room in the bed for another spouse.