A Massachusetts City Decides to Recognize Polyamorous Relationships

NY Times ^ | July 1, 2020 | Ellen Berry

[C19fan]

At the tail end of a City Council meeting last week, so quickly and quietly that you could have easily missed it, a left-leaning Massachusetts city expanded its notion of family to include people who are polyamorous, or maintaining consenting relationships with multiple partners.

[C19fan]

I remember the LGBT and their allies mocked people who claim their arguments could be use to legalize polygamy. I think they knew the critique was true but they lied long enough to get what they wanted. Over/Under before the SCOTUS mandates states must legalize polygamy?

[al_c]

Gosh ... didn’t see this coming. /s

[the OlLine Rebel]

How many times these days do I have to say...

Oh good God.

[C19fan]

It took 15 years from when Vermont created same sex unions in 2000 to Obergefell in 2015.

[jimfree]

Who could possibly have predicted that?

[ClearCase_guy]

If everyone in my neighborhood kind of marries everyone else in my neighborhood, exactly how much in taxes do I no longer have to pay?

Asking for a friend.

[dp0622]

I don’t even want one wife

[deek69]

Hmm, I wonder if the LGBQT community will still be preaching ‘as long as they love each other it isn’t anybodies business’? This should be interesting.

[hal ogen]

Animals...did they include animals? What animalists!!!

[dfwgator]

I don’t even want one wife

Multiple wives = Multiple Mothers-In-Law

[Kriggerel]

Well, Mittens *WAS* the governor, and the Mormons have never really left polygamy behind, so...

[Buckeye McFrog]

A Pakistani Muslim I once knew told me that his religion allowed him to have up to four wives, but that a fellow would have to be insane to actually try it.

[dfwgator]

Told you so...

[Boogieman]

Hehe. Now to get a municipal job with this city and then get everyone that I can who lives there to join my “polyamorous relationship” so we can drain the town coffers by claiming partner benefits.

[FightforFreedomCA]

“Oh, there’s no slippery slope!” — every lying liberal

[rlmorel]

Somerville borders Cambridge (Berkeley, Madison, Ithaca...all in the same cesspool...)

So this figures.

[Dr. Sivana]

I don’t see polygamy or polyamory a trip down the slippery slope. Polygamy is less against nature or the civil order than sodomy.

[C19fan]

I went to school in the area In the late 80s. I guess the mostly white working and lower middle class people who used to live there have been driven out.

[jeffersondem]

“I remember the LGBT and their allies mocked people who claim their arguments could be use to legalize polygamy. I think they knew the critique was true but they lied long enough to get what they wanted.”

They maintained their pretext as long as there was a need to maintain their pretext.

[Jeff Chandler]

Waiting in the wings: