[Dilbert San Diego]

yes polygamy is illegal, but there has been at least one lawsuit filed after the gay marriage lawsuits started making the argument that it’s discriminitory to limit marriage to 1 man and 1 woman. Reason being, polygamists can claim that 2 person marriage is also discriminitory.

If courts will find a constitutional right to same sex marriage, they could also use the same reasoning and find a constitutional right to polygamy, or any other arrangement that people wish to live in.

Like it or not, previous generations made a policy judgement that polygamy should be illegal. Similarly, nobody in years past ever thought about same sex marriage happening. But the same legal arguments, that it is discrimination, apply to both same sex marriage and polygamy.

[Saundra Duffy]

Oh, for God’s sake! I am not for same sex marriage; nor am I for polygamy. God forbid! This is such nonsense. All I’m saying is that when the authorities invaded that ranch, they did so by crapping all over the Constitution.

[Flo Nightengale]

Rauch does discuss homosexual marriage at the end of the article. You may not agree with his conclusion--"By this point it should be obvious that polygamy is, structurally and socially, the opposite of same-sex marriage, not its equivalent. Same-sex marriage stabilizes individuals, couples, communities, and society by extending marriage to many who now lack it. Polygamy destabilizes individuals, couples, communities, and society by withdrawing marriage from many who now have it."--but he does address the issue.

I don't believe in homosexual marriage, but I do agree that marriage stabilizes and polygamy destabilizes. So the argument could be made that making homosexual "marriage" legal won't necessarily lead to the legalization of polygamy.

[UCANSEE2]

You make some good points.

Legal marriage is one thing.

‘Spiritual-marriages’ are another.

Can you claim polygamy if you aren’t legally married to more than one person?

[IIntense]

One can argue in favor of same-sex and/or polygamist marriages but neither provide a child one mother and one father.

For instance, where are all these FLDS sperm-donors who have sired children with different women? Everyone one of these men and women who are parents of the FLDS children taken into custody should be giving their DNA immediately to identify their children to the Texas authorities.

If they don't step up to identify their own children, it's reasonable to believe that they are unfit parents.

As to children living in a homosexual household, they are living in an abnormal situation.