"Legalized Polyamory"

[elfs]

In National Review, the unofficial organ of Catholic American conservatism and the flagship outlet of William F. Buckley, Stanley Kurtz wrings his hands at an impending Canandian court case that would recognize familial rights to three people (two women and one man) with respect to a child.

Legalized polyamory means still another radical increase in the difficulties of children. And polyamorists are already organized and ready to take advantage of any opening in the law.
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The logic of gay marriage leads inexorably to the end of marriage, and the creation in its place of an infinitely flexible series of contracts. Monogamous marriage cannot function if it is just one of many social arrangement. Marriage as an institution depends for its successful functioning upon the support and encouragement that the ethos of monogamy receives from society as a whole. If anything can be called a marriage -- including group marriage -- then the ethos of monogamy that keeps families together will have been broken, and the social reinforcement that is the essence of marriage itself will be gone. Again, it is children who will pay the price.

Read the rest at Heather has 3 Parents.

Agree or disagree with Kurtz, it's important to keep track of what he and people like him are saying as oppositional arguments to the matter.

Comments

Everyone's saying this, but...

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

...I actually like about 50% of this article. Because, save for oddly-placed, backhanded comments like 'And the children will suffer.' the quoted paragraph almost reads like a rally-cry for polyamory and things other than M<->F marriages.

Of course, the fact that I know quite a few people in poly relationships, am in one myself, and know a couple more that were raised in such obviously colours my perspective. Poly doesn't always work, no. But neither does anything else. But surprisingly, a goodly chunk of his 'complaints' I could see being used as reasons for poly instead of against it.

And I'd use a less-emphatic Kanji for this post, but I only have 3 to pick from, being a free user. =^.^=