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SSM and polygamy are not really related issues. You run into very complicated issues when you consider how children and property ownership would work in a many-person relationship. Marriage specifies shortcuts for these kinds of things, but they only work for two-person relationships. Polygamous relationships would basically require unique contracts given all circumstances, which is a pretty high burden. It's also not clear that polygamous marriages would have the same kind of societal benefits that two-person marriages have.

I think it's a point that can be convincingly argued, but the legalization of SSM does not imply a requirement for polygamous marriage's legalization. They're entirely different issues.



I am arguing that they are related.

re: children; in a gay marriage, at best the child belongs to one of the parents, at worst: it is adopted.

How is it different from polygamy.

Regarding property ownership: polygamy has been historically done is so many cultures that there is prior art & legal framework.

polygamy's legitimacy was taken away, unlike gay marriage, where it was never legitimate.

Both were illegitimate because of moral reasons. And now, that is being whittled away....




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