polygamy issue

when i am going over the debates on legalize Polygamist, i thought to myself, why cant you have more than one hus/wifes when u love more than 1, i mean, you dont have to have more than 1...it's ur choice....
i really dont get it.. i think Poly gamist should be legalized because, you see..Gay marriage was illegal too...but it's legal now~~HAHA!!!

i suppose to have an debate on Legalize polygamist while Gay marriage is already legal. However, i have an general idea, but just donno where to begin..Can some one help...
by the way..i really think polygamist should be legalized.

It's just the religious basis for our entire culture. Under the Christian Church, a man may not wed more than one woman. This aspect of the religion has stuck, as did the ban on homosexual marriage until recently.

Oddly enough I had a conversation with a....well for lack of a better term "**** friend" of mine last night. If I could marry her AND my girlfriend i'd be happy. Then again...that'd be double the stress....so maybe i'm better off with one

Sure, why not?

I don't see how you can be intellectually consistent by legalizing SSM but not polygamy.

For God's Sake, guys, do you really want to end up with poly-alimony?

But interesting idea, that if you legalize gay marriage, maybe you should legalize polygamy---but of course that would also mean that one woman could marry many men.... how would you like to be in that kind of marriage... marked down on the calendar for your one day a week...if your lucky!

Honestly, if people want to marry multiple women, fine by me, I know I wouldn't do it in all seriousness. One girlfriend/wife is enough for me. I don't need two or more females bitching at me for things I didn't do, or did do, or will do, or won't do.

It's also a contractual issue. In a three way marriage he gets one half of the benefits and the women get one quarter each. Isn't everyone supposed to be equal?

Ooooh good point....

About the same time SSM became legal an opinion was released stating that with SSM there was an icreased liklihood that multiple marriages would also soon become legal, as it is an equality issue. As of right now nonone has challenged the law, but, I expect that one day soon someone will go to court in hte hope of having it declared unconstitutional.

Indeed, polygamy resides in a legal grey area in Canada and has done so for many years. Although technically illegal noone is ever prosecuted for breaking the law. The community of Bountiful, British Columbia being perhaps the most recognised polygamist settlement in Canada, it has existed outside of the law for over 50 years as a "traditional" Mormon community. Problems have not arisen ovcer questions such as pensions etc... simply because of the self-reliance of the community, although as of late more questions are being raised to do with child abuse, as many of the young girls in Bountiful are married off at 13 or 14 years of age and some adolescent boys are encouraged to leave in order for older men to keep marrying. The CBC recently had a series on the community if anyone is interested.

So this being Canada and we're all equal, does this mean a woman could have two husbands?
Hey someone had to bring it up!
I'm married and 1 is plenty thanks.

In terms of polygamous marriages in Canada, I have a mixed opinion on this subject. First and foremost, I think that we should ensure that the practices of abuse and unlawful activity so often accused of communities in places such as Bountiful, in the Province of British Columbia, no longer occur, or have not occurred in any serious numbers.

Second, I think that we should ensure that, should persons begin to be permitted to exercise multiple marriages, that persons should be required to define an "order of precedence" among their spouses, so to speak, where for the purposes of the law, in the events of incapacity and so on, the first available person on the list would be asked to make decisions, or to receive whatever benefits, or incur whatever penalties, would otherwise occur with another couple.

i agree with FiveParadox, there must be some protect..