Stop making it personal. I am not advocating any such thing. I'm merely pointing out that if one dictator in a judicial robe can force us to recognize gay marriage, they can force us to recognize any other format.
Not just polygamy, but especially polygamy because it has far more legal precedent in human history.
That wasn’t “personal”, I didn’t mean you literally, didn’t you see the part about the 20 wives?
“”There is also a large difference between the government as a party to a marriage contract as in the case of bonds, banns, etc. and the government as the sole legitimate recorder of marriages as we have now. Yeah, I know, churches still perform and record marriages, but they have no legal force other than as back-up evidence to the government records.
This will at least be the case until some judge declares a Muslim marriage to four wives to be a civil right under Sharia law. And it is only a matter of time before it is coming once fudgepacker marriage is declared co-equal.
What legal basis is there to stop now?””
That sure looks like a call to remove any definition of marriage in law, and just let religions make the laws, to me.
Which is silly, marriage has always had to be legal, or not legal, even common-law marriage has to be legal, or not legal, at both the state and federal levels, and if you don’t care about legal recognition, then don’t worry about it, just have your own private “marriage”.
Private views on marriage are still available to everyone and always have been, it is in the legal realm where the rest of us start really paying attention, or if your mate/mates decide they want to divide property and children.