It's Time To Legalize Polygamy Summary

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In the article “It’s time to legalize polygamy”, by Fredrik Debore, writes that it’s time to recognize polygamy as a legal form of marriage and for the court to recognize it as well. That court recognized that love, devotion and family isn’t driving by gender alone so why should the limits stop there? Deboer’s main argument is that since gay marriage has be legalized then the next logical step should be to legalized polygamy. If the court has no control over who is being married then why should we stop with just marring one person rather than share the love with multiple, and if they did, would it be denying the rights of these human beings? Deboer’s also argues that people in polygamy relationship are missing the benefits from being married and that the court cannot restrict the legal protections affords from marriage. No matter what there will still be polygamy relationships it just depends if they will continue to stay in these unrecognized marriage. Since unconventional views have already started to be challenged by marriage equality groups why wouldn’t they continue to challenge the view of just one spouse? …show more content…

Most political systems tend to avoid this topic because they don’t know how it would fit in the legal system. People also that hat polygamy tends to be a “slippery slope” and that’s why they avoid the topic. If they continue to talk about the logistics of polygamy they feel that it would lead to bestiality or child marriages. The main difference is that in these option is that these animals and children cannot give consent to the terms they would agree to. Which is why people to tend to dodge this topic then talk about it, which doesn’t help in the process of

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