So what ever happened to your oft repeated notion of - 'as long as it's consenting adults that love each other it's nobody else's business' ?
What are you on about? I explained what I was talking about in terms of legal contracts of marriage. Twice now as a matter of fact. Must I do it a third time? Obviously so.
As is, marriage is set up both at a state and federal level with provisions, limitations, restrictions, rights, and benefits for two people. Social security and retirement death benefits and medical proxy and care and so on all are already configured into the marriage contract for 2 spouses. An entire reworking of how those benefits, tax laws, medical care rights, and so on to incorporate any number of spouses would make the base marriage laws far more complicated than they are or need be. One of the main reasons that legally marrying more than one spouse is criminalized in many countries is because of the ability to take advantage of and fraud the current systems as they are presently set up. It's not about telling people that they can't love more than one person, it's about not having someone abuse the system. As I said, there is nothing that prevents someone from having one legal spouse and then having personal/religious ceremonies/marriages with more spouses and finding separate ways to include them legally into the family provisions. since polygamous marriages do vary so, both in number of participants and the set up of how those marriages work, then it would make sense to allow each family to personally set up their own provisions as necessary.
Have I made myself clear to you now? Or are you still just wanting to argue for the sake of arguing? My only issue with poly marriage is that it doesn't fit into the 2 person marriage contract. That is not to say that they can't set up their own on a personal and case by case basis.
