Why or why not?
2006-11-05 06:06:24 · 5 answers · asked by Ryan M 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Yes, marriage was only a business deal for centuries, this falicy that somehow some guy on a cloud decided you needed a ring and a preacher(who gets $$ to marry people),and a piece of paper from the state(again for $$)and that it is some mystical wonder that two people need to seek permision to sleep with each other so the nieghbors will like them, I mean come on!!!
What goes on behind someone else's closed doors is not my business nor should it be the government's. If a group of 3 or more people wanna make their own arrangement it should be their choice. Hey the guy is just gonna have anywhere from 2 to 7 women with "headaches"!(hell maybe more). So what? His problem not mine or yours really. And heaven help him if they all decide to get their periods at the same time, I say more power to him!!! And although I commend coragryph for making an opposing view from mine rationally his argument is disproved when you think how quickly laws were rewritten to pass the Patriot Act,what was it 6 weeks.
2006-11-05 10:10:51 · answer #1 · answered by older_fat_male 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because it's problematic, from a legal standpoint.
All of the currently marriage laws -- community property, inheritance, agency, custody, divorce, shared liability -- all of the current laws are structured for two people (two adult humans).
Trying to change the laws to allow for more than two people in the union would require a massive re-write from the ground up. It can be done, but it can't be done easily or quickly.
We can't even get most people in this country to realize that the existing gender neutral marriage laws that involve two people can handle two people independent of gender. And that change requires no restructuring at all, since all the marriage laws are already set up for two adults. Trying to rewrite all the laws to deal with more than two people is functionally impossible.
2006-11-05 14:11:10 · answer #2 · answered by coragryph 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well if they legalize gay marriage, why not? Hell lets let little old ladies in Montana marry their cats too, they love them!
2006-11-05 14:10:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Polygamy inevitably leads to incest and child sex abuse, legal it would be an extremely powerful draw for misogynist pedophiles and sociopaths!
2006-11-05 14:11:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
No, it shouldn't be. Because TRADITIONALLY marriage in America is between one man and one woman, not one man and thirteen women.
2006-11-05 14:09:18 · answer #5 · answered by Mortis 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋