Posted on 03/30/2021 12:13:28 PM PDT by gattaca
Boston, Mass., Mar 20, 2021 / 06:01 am MT (CNA).- Cambridge, Massachusetts has redefined domestic partnerships to give relationships involving more than two people the same rights as a married couple.
Home to Harvard University, Cambridge is the second city in the state, after its neighbor Somerville, legally to recognize polyamory.
During a March 8 meeting, the Cambridge city council voted to redefine “domestic partnerships,” which previously had been defined as two unmarried people living together.
The new definition broadens the definition to “two or more persons” not related by blood who “are in a relationship of mutual support, caring and commitment and intend to remain in such a relationship” and “consider themselves to be a family.”
The council also removed a requirement that those in a domestic partnership must live together, as well as a provision that those in a domestic partnership must submit evidence to the city of their relationship as a family.
Somerville, which borders Cambridge, broadened its definition of domestic partnership to include polyamorous relationships during July 2020, the first in the nation to do so. Both cities are close to Boston.
Catholic scholars, including Professor Robert George of Princeton University, have said in recent years that redefining marriage could lead to a collapse of the term altogether, with people questioning why marriage requires exclusivity, permanence, and sexual fidelity. George has also noted that in a society that has rejected the idea of sexual complementarity, there is no rational basis for rejecting polyamory.
Ryan Anderson, currently president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, told CNA last year that he was not surprised by the latest efforts to redefine marriage to include multiple people.
“Of course it was never going to stop with same-sex couples,” Anderson told CNA. “Once you redefine marriage to eliminate the male-female component, what principle requires monogamy?”
The former cultural norm of marriage between one man and one woman, Anderson said, “was that only one man and one woman could unite as one flesh as husband and wife in the very same act that could produce new life, and then connect that new life with his or her own mother and father.”
“Once the law and culture says the male-female aspect of marriage violates justice and equality, we haven’t ‘expanded’ marriage, we’ve fundamentally redefined what it is. And those redefinitions have no principled stopping point,” he said.
The Cambridge legal change was drafted with the help of the Polyamory Legal Advocacy Coalition. The group is an outgrowth of the Harvard Law School LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic and is supported by the American Psychological Association.
Here’s more on this subject...
Cambridge Will Recognize Polyamorous Partnerships and Other Domestic Arrangements With More Than 2 Adults
The next lib who says any variant of “slippery slopes don’t real” should get ... I can’t think of anything bad enough for such people.
Can Harems be far behind?
Sodom and Gomorrah Stage II enter right...
How does a city have the authority to recognize polyamorous marriages? If they leave the city are they just not recognized or is it bigamy?
MA is home of Provincetown. Mitt Romney was the popular Governor complete with early version of Obamacare (RomneyCare).
Which is quirkier and more disreputable, OR, WA or MA? Close race.
By this "definition," a group of friends can get married...you know...to share medical benefits and such.
By the way...since "we're" redefining marriage these days, why are they specifically excluding those "not related by blood?"
What's the point of that, specific, exclusion?
A rhetorical question of course.
All the local Mosques approve of this decision.
The ten commandments just aren’t good enough for these reprehensible bastards.
My ex-husband is in a polyamory relationship. Makes me sick. He is the father of my only child. He has been in that over 20 years. We get a long, I just don’t understand.
Did not think they had so many Mormons in Massachusetts.
Cuomo has one...in his dreams!
What’s most amazing is that much of this cultural shape shifting is anti-women. “Polyamory” leads to polygamy and female servitude. Transgenderism leads to invasion of female privacy and competitive sports. Female sexuality is now considered passé and women must exhibit masculinity.
Remind me again who stands for women’s rights?
That ain’t your father’s Slummerville.
There is a town around old Boston Bay
A place where time and light stand still
Just follow your nose and heart
And soon your feet will find themselves in Somerville
The city center there is filled with streets
A sub shop graces every hill
You might think you’re dreaming
Then again you might not
Anyway, you’re in Somerville
Come watch the buildings stand up proud and tall
While far below, the pavement hugs the ground
At night the stoplights change their hue from red to green
Then they change back from green to red
A carnival of color here in Somerville
Too bad that everyone’s in bed
A wondrous place where branches hang on every tree
Where people go to work and then go home
The penalty for having 2 wives is till the same: 2 mothers-in-law.
The Peoples Republic of Cambridge.
“Of course it was never going to stop with same-sex couples,”
Get rid of the basic family structures you can do anything to the subject people.
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