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

["Kelly Cookson" <kc62301@hotmail.com>]

Desmond, Your responses on the blog were generally good. However, in this 
response you are making assumptions:

"It also means that anyone, man or woman, who marries a second spouse 
without the knowledge and consent of the first spouse would be guilty of 
violating the terms of the original marriage, similar to a spouse running 
off with all of the family?s money is guilty of theft and abandonment."

That depends entirely on how the laws about multi-partner marriage are 
crafted. Notification is not currently required for socially monogamous 
marriage. Two people who want to get married can do so without telling any 
friends or family members in advance, and no friends or family members can 
prevent two people from getting married if they meet the legal requirements 
for marriage. The kind of protection you imagine has to be put into a new 
law because it's currently doesn't exist. And if conservative polygamists 
get to lobby for how laws are created, then you might even have a fight on 
your hands over that protection.

That's the kind of thing I've been talking about for awhile now. Your 
opponents are going to come up with legal, economic, and social problems 
that might be caused by legalizing multi-partner marriage. Polyamorists 
really do need to conduct due diligence and provide solutions or rememdies 
to anticiated problems if they are going to win the majority vote needed to 
legalize multi-partner marriage.

Kelly

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