(UK) Coalition rules out legalising multiple Islamic marriages after Whitehall leak

The Telegraph ^ | 7/21/11 | Charlie Barker and Tim Ross

[markomalley]

Ministers have ruled out legalising polygamy after a leaked Whitehall paper suggested multiple Islamic marriages could be officially recorded by the state.

An internal document, prepared for ministers by civil servants, warned that women who enter religious marriages are “unprotected” if their husband then takes a second or third wife.

One possible solution could be to require all Islamic and other religious marriages to be registered with state authorities, the document suggested.

The Department for Communities and Local Government quickly ruled out legalising multiple sharia law marriages.

But the suggestion caused alarm among some MPs, who warned that any move towards official recognition of polygamy would be “wholly unacceptable”.

[markomalley]

That they would even consider it is just another example of how Britain is down the tubes.

[BillyBoy]

Obviously they are polygamaphobic (most likely motivated solely for religious reasons) and want to discriminate against the right of consenting adults to love one another. This kind of bigotry has no place in modern society.

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks markomalley.

An internal document, prepared for ministers by civil servants, warned that women who enter religious marriages are "unprotected" if their husband then takes a second or third wife. One possible solution could be to require all Islamic and other religious marriages to be registered with state authorities, the document suggested.

They'd also be on the dole and "protected" after their "husbands" went to prison for bigamy.