Of course it is. (EDIT: I entered the thread as just another poster, answering my own question). Gay marriage will be legal throughout the United
States very soon, or at least in the next twelve years. That's a given. It may take as little as one or two. So the next legal and marriage rights
battleground there and throughout the world will be polygamy. If two women love a guy, and he loves both of them, then the U.S. HBO series "Big Love"
shows that it looks about the same as any other marriage, it just depends on the number of people unified in total support of each other and sometimes
at each other's throats.
All the other great apes are polygamous in their relationships and social bonds. Polygamy is very common in some countries, especially amongst those
with lots of money (and even in nonpolygamous countries, very powerfrul men usually have a mistress or two and that's just seen as normal and is no
big deal in lots of nations). With gay rights rolling towards an inevitable win, does that means that three men can marry each other once polygamy
is allowed. An OP did a thread in 2010 about "Can Three Bisexuals Be Legally Wed Polygamists in California?" - which, imnho, is one of the better
thread names I've seen at ATS.
www.abovetopsecret.com... That thread here.
So, the point of this thread is to make the assumption that the gay rights movement will obtain gay marriage in every civilized nation, it's just a
matter of time because the momentum is all one-way and coasting on its own. And that the next civil rights associated with marriage will be polygamy.
It's the only one left which demans consenting adults to make a marriage agreement. Bestiality won't be fought as a legal civil right, because no
consent can be given by the animal that would stand up in a court of law. All bestiality is rape, and that's not going to be legalized. Incestous
marriage? Will dad marry his daughter? Not in my imagination of "knowing" level, that won't be allowed because it's just gross to the human social
brain, but the right likely can be legally argued by consenting adults, I guess. Gross. Child-adult marriages. Nope, won't happen, no consenting adult
in the mix. In the U.S. the age of consent is falling quickly, but NAMBA, ain't gonna happen dudes, and they know it.
Which leaves polygamy, which seems pretty normal to me. That's because I know humans are apes and apes practice polygamy. Would that stand up as a
legal argument?
And of course theres the "What would happen" question. A polygamous triple or quadruple ("would you like to go on an octagonal-date with us?") moves
into, say, the U.S. from Saudi Arabia and want citizenship. Wouldn't they be allowed to stay married even when citizenship were granted? They'd have a
very good legal argument, and might win that case depending on the forward-lookingness of the Supreme Court. In twelve years they'd win it for sure.
Legal polygamy is coming, it's also inevitable. Just a matter of how long it will take, another decade or more? So three options are "under a decade",
"over a decade" or "never". The "never"'s have a hard case to sell, I personally think it's over/under twelve years in the U.S..
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