[UUPoly-L] By the way...

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

I've been in an open marriage with the same wonderful spouse for 23 years. 
We plan to stay happily and openly married the rest of our lives.

I was an out bisexual activist in the Washington DC area for many years. I 
continue to be out to my family and friends as a bisexual. But there's not 
much activism going on in the cornfields of Illinois, where I am stuck for a 
few more years.

I have lived in group situations with multiple lovers, though can't honestly 
say we all considered it a group marriage. My spouse and I would like to 
move in with an old lover of ours when we retire. So it's not that I'm 
flatly opposed to group marriage.

I just think a lot of polyamorists have blinders on when it comes to how big 
a change multi-partner marriage would be for our society. In fact, it's a 
new structure that our society is just not adapted to manage. While our 
society can certainly adapt to accomodate multi-partner marriage, to do so 
with reasonable control over the human and financial costs of the change 
will require planning and hard work--politically, legally, and socially. I 
just haven't seen that kind of planning or hard work happen yet. So I don't 
take the legalization of multi-partner marriage that seriously, yet.

:-)
Kelly

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