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[....I said sex with lots of people in one house. Does the government ban that?...]

If the man and his female partners were to describe themselves as married, the answer is yes. The government bans that.

But I suppose if the man and his partners were to describe themselves as a hippie commune, the state may overlook that transgression.

But the man and his women describe themselves as "married" or the government was to hear from a third party that the man and his women consider themselves married, then they would be at risk of arrest and imprisonment.

That was the issue at stake, when the Supreme Court outlawed polygamy in the last century. Government agents and other Mormon-haters in the 1890s, went door-to-door in Mormon homes in Utah, looking for evidence that a man was ina polygamous relationship. As a result of such witch-hunts, many Mormons who were minding their own business in the privacy of their own homes, were arrested and jailed. As a result of the persecution, the mainstream Mormon Church was forced to formally disavow polygamy. But there are fundamentalist sects that have broken away from the main Mormon Church, which still live the polygamous lifestyle today.

Those very strict anti-polygamy laws remain in effect today. Gays should be thankful that their enemies are not as vigilant in monitoring their activities, as opponents of polygamy are in watching polygamous relationships.

Are you going to ignore my questions:

1) Should the state be allowed to ban masturbation?

2) If anal sex is legal for heterosexuals, why is it illegal for homosexuals? This is an especially troubling matter I just came across.

I never said anything about describing themselves as married. Marriage, as I've repeated so many times I'm surprised I haven't been warned to stop, is an activity subject to government regulation since it is a civil matter. Sex is not.