The polygamy advocates are not waiting for gay marriage to become mainstream. They are putting down the intellectual and legal foundation to support pologamy.
Some initial work has been put forward by Elizabeth F. Emens. She is a law professor at the University of Chicago and has a Ph.D. in English from Cambridge University and a J.D. from Yale Law School. Not surprisingly, her work is very well done, and borrows heavily from the gay marriage arguments. She is not some crack pot you can dismiss as a wacko. Her stuff holds together, is consistent and provocative.
Here is an example of her reasoning:
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Emens argues that everyone has a bit of "poly" inside. If we can just discover, nurture, and accept our inner polyamorist, then even for those who choose to remain monogamous, the prejudice against polyamory will disappear. This will allow everyone to make an unconstrained choice between monogamy and polyamory. So it's possible to see both homosexuality and polyamory as part of a complex continuum of human sexuality, says Emens. And when we begin to look at things this way, we can finally take down the legal, social, and cultural barriers to both homosexuality and polyamory.
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If you accept the gay marriage arguments, this argument is very hard to dispute.
It is good to see that there is no slippery slope as the doom sayers have warned. There is only a cliff, and we are on our way over.
Some initial work has been put forward by Elizabeth F. Emens. She is a law professor at the University of Chicago and has a Ph.D. in English from Cambridge University and a J.D. from Yale Law School. Not surprisingly, her work is very well done, and borrows heavily from the gay marriage arguments. She is not some crack pot you can dismiss as a wacko. Her stuff holds together, is consistent and provocative.
Here is an example of her reasoning:
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Emens argues that everyone has a bit of "poly" inside. If we can just discover, nurture, and accept our inner polyamorist, then even for those who choose to remain monogamous, the prejudice against polyamory will disappear. This will allow everyone to make an unconstrained choice between monogamy and polyamory. So it's possible to see both homosexuality and polyamory as part of a complex continuum of human sexuality, says Emens. And when we begin to look at things this way, we can finally take down the legal, social, and cultural barriers to both homosexuality and polyamory.
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If you accept the gay marriage arguments, this argument is very hard to dispute.
It is good to see that there is no slippery slope as the doom sayers have warned. There is only a cliff, and we are on our way over.