Re: [UUPoly-L] Open Marriage--Polyamory

["Desmond Ravenstone" <gentlemonster@lycos.com>]

   >IOW, my objection to your argument is that it would draw the

   >line against group marriages for all time. You object to

   >group marriage as incompatible with a huge number of things

   >in current society that ARE NEVER GOING TO CHANGE until

   >group marriage is introduced.

   That's not my intention. What I want to see are think tanks or other

   mechanisms set up to spend time and brain power anticipating what the
   major

   problems will likely be. They should also consider how to resolve things

   with the United Nations, since the United Nations is trying to outlaw all

   polygamous marriages worldwide as part of their women's rights efforts.

   Here's a suggestion: Use and extend the concept of "domestic partnerships"
   to give the additional partners of consensual multi-partner households
   some degree of legal recognition and protection. This would essentially
   get around the UN's anti-polygamy policy (which clearly fails to
   distinguish between coercive polygamy and consensual polyamory). Over time
   and with educational efforts, people would begin to see that it would be
   better to treat multi-partner households with greater equity, and then
   make the shift (conceptually and legally) to full marriage recognition --
   essentially what happened (and continues to happen) with same-sex
   partnerships over time.

   Desmond Ravenstone

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