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

[bear@pagansexcult.org]

On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Kelly Cookson wrote:

> > 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.

I don't think it's consistent with history to expect that
this kind of effort and resource allocation will be done in
the absence of an immediate requirement, in the form of a
lot of plural unions.  The word, "Marriage," may become
before the worst of the crisis or after it, but the fact is
that no matter what you call it, people living together in
plural unions will go through a lot of pain and the nation
will be in serious legal crisis before that effort and those
resources are seen as justified.

I expect to see some kind of legally-ambiguous state for
multiple-partner unions soon.  It may even already exist
in areas that have no laws against 3+ unrelated adults
sharing a house (ie, legal multipartner cohabitation).

People in this situation will serve (are serving) as the
crash-test dummies on whose mishaps and tragedies the
framework of legal precedent and custom will emerge or is
emerging.  If they persist in large numbers, the framework
of precedent and custom becomes firm enough that laws are
passed governing the situation.  At some point, a "crisis"
will be reached where precedent and custom and law is
hopelessly inconsistent, muddled and divided between present
paradigm and multipartner paradigm. Then, and not before,
you will have a crisis that people will respond to with
think tanks and serious efforts to draft a new set of
consistent laws.

Man, doesn't anybody read Weishaupt anymore?

                              Bear