[UUPoly-L] And yet another blog posting ...

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

   Thomas Schade, a/k/a LivelyTraditionalist, has posted yet another blog on
   the polyamory issue:

   http://thelivelytradition.blogspot.com/2007/07/in-defense-of-my-mother.html

   Schade makes an extreme statement here:

   "If you believe that multi-partnered relationships should be given equal
   marriage rights as two-person marriages, then it doesn't mean that you get
   to pick the composition and terms of those marriages beyond the minimal
   age restrictions we know place. My mothers question in my mind on this is
   "What if any group of three people want to get married?"

   It means that the laws against polygamy must be abolished. How can UU
   triads be given marriage rights and not Mormans and Muslims? It means that
   marriages in which new and younger women are brought into the marriage on
   a serial basis, with the oldest wife's consent, must be legalized. It
   means that no standard that we would like to think of being essential --
   careful negotiation, mutuality, egalitarianism, gender equality -- can be
   applied, unless we have the means to apply them equally to all marriages.
   It means, to be snarky, that we are in favor of multi-partnered
   relationships having equal marriage rights even if the people involved
   have never been in an OWL class."

   I'll be trying to work out a response -- unless, of course, someone beats
   me to the punch ...

   Desmond Ravenstone

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