If gays can have marriage what about polygamists.
More the merrier
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Thats disgusting
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If multiple people want to get married, I don't see why not. It's not my cup of tea, but does not affect me in any way, it doesn't affect anyone else, nobody is getting hurt. However I do think that polygamy should be legalized just like homosexuality does, I do not think we should hold off on same-sex marriage till it and polygamy can be legalized at the same time. Side: More the merrier
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Eventually they will get their chance. As of now we are in the treat gays like every one else and just let them marry era. Then after that we may move into the polygamy era. I do not know what the arguments for it is but eventually they will get a chance. Side: More the merrier
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How I feel about marriage is, that it is a relationship between two people who love each other. I wish the definition of marriage was changed from 'love between man and woman' to 'love between two people', I do not wish it was changed to 'love between an amount of people'. I personally feel that bigamy is going one step too far, but I am a libertarian, and I do want to .. try and accept everyone's opinion, so yes - if you truly love 4 people then I'm not gonna stand in your way. Side: More the merrier
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Well, it's not disgusting and there are plenty of mature adults who would do great, and frankly probably deserve, to have this type of relationship if they want. The problem here is harm to actual real living things (unlike the anti-gay marriage arguments, which are only about superstition). The idea is that this sort of relationship encourages subservience, unwilling subservience, and to this extent (the line can be vague) it is the responsibility of a society to protect its citizens, even the dumb ones (dumb when it's unwilling subservience). It's admittedly a slippery slope argument, but so is just about everything from child porn to what size soda to sell. I am for polygamist relationships amongst the willing, the question is how to protect the unwilling, and we see in most of the polygamist relationships which have received any type of press, it is indeed a case of mothers indoctrinating daughters into it, that once they are out they realize they were unhappy. Figure out a way to protect from this, and I'm for it. I would be wary of any who say on the one hand "let them do whatever" because it's my belief that it should be our responsibility to strive to protect individuals, I do not like the attitude that allows the strong to take advantage of the week unopposed. I'm also wary of telling adults what they should or should not do, what's right and what's wrong when all parties are willing participants. Side: Thats disgusting
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