[Vision2020] gay marriage and bananas

[Peter Willard]

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At 12:19 PM 8/7/03 -0700, Joan Opyr wrote:
>I have no moral or philosophical objections to polygamy.  I can, however, 
>see some practical difficulties if it were practiced in the United States.

Most of the polygamy in the USA involves a guy who travels for his trade 
who acquires a spouse in each of the cities he most often travels to. You 
probably know someone who has either been in this situation or knows 
someone else who has, it's not unusual at all, just ask around and see. The 
point is that most polygamy, as it is practiced, is really a kind of fraud 
committed against the spouses and kids. This is a lot more common than the 
sort of polygamy that the teevee set likes to show us, with creepy 
religious cult people doing their thing in creepy little towns using force 
with their fraud.
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>.  I think the state ought to get out of the marriage business altogether.

Can't happen as the purpose of the state, at least Our State, is to define 
and protect property rights. Marriage is one arena of human activity where 
conflicting claims to property tend to happen a lot. The gov'mint has to be 
conservative about changing marriage law to avoid an avalanche of new kinds 
of disputes. The courts don't like having to decide new kinds of cases as 
it takes a lot of time, it makes them unpopular no matter how they decide 
and controversies tend to be rekindled every so often. How do you say? 
Tough cases make bad law?




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