If gay marriage is to be allowed, then why not polygamy? Including polyandry
A lot of conservatives including myself are striking back with this hypothetical. This is a small but effective way of holding up a mirror to liberals' flawed logic and letting them see that it is unrealistic.
Shoot, no reason not to. If a male can marry a male and a female can marry another female, then there men can be allowed multiple wives, and women can be allowed multiple husbands.
Liberals struck back with their version of logic rebuttals. They mostly said that family courts will not be capable of handling the mire that would arise with polygamy. However, the arguments that "gosh it is just too hard" are asinine and irrelevant. Family court law deals with "hard" stuff all the time. They have already addressed many odd and perplexing household arrangements. Never underestimate the weird labyrinthine lengths to which people will go, to make family life complicated. Therefore family law must evolve to keep up with this demand. There are so many odd combinations of stepchildren and half-children. In other cases, oftentimes child custody is awarded to someone other than either biological parent, such as a grandparent, etc.
For example, a husband and wife with three children get divorced, child custody is awarded to the wife, and the husband is ordered to pay an amount of child support. The wife had put her career on hold to raise the children into kind, decent human beings, so that ruling is just. Now, suppose sometime down the road, the wife remarries and the new husband works full-time and is able to support them all. Does the ex-husband still have to pay child support? And what if the wife and new husband have a child? How does that work into the equation? Suppose the ex-husband now remarries, and he and his second wife have a child together. What then?
That is only a small sliver of the stuff that family courts have to slough through every day. But they handle it. If polygamy were allowed, the family courts can handle that also.
So, sorry, no. If the insane, illogical, ludicrous gay marriage is allowed, there is no reason that the insane, illogical, ludicrous polygamy should not be allowed. If we can allow the liberal extreme just because people feel like it, then we can allow the conservative extreme just because people feel like it.
A lot of conservatives including myself are striking back with this hypothetical. This is a small but effective way of holding up a mirror to liberals' flawed logic and letting them see that it is unrealistic.
Shoot, no reason not to. If a male can marry a male and a female can marry another female, then there men can be allowed multiple wives, and women can be allowed multiple husbands.
Liberals struck back with their version of logic rebuttals. They mostly said that family courts will not be capable of handling the mire that would arise with polygamy. However, the arguments that "gosh it is just too hard" are asinine and irrelevant. Family court law deals with "hard" stuff all the time. They have already addressed many odd and perplexing household arrangements. Never underestimate the weird labyrinthine lengths to which people will go, to make family life complicated. Therefore family law must evolve to keep up with this demand. There are so many odd combinations of stepchildren and half-children. In other cases, oftentimes child custody is awarded to someone other than either biological parent, such as a grandparent, etc.
For example, a husband and wife with three children get divorced, child custody is awarded to the wife, and the husband is ordered to pay an amount of child support. The wife had put her career on hold to raise the children into kind, decent human beings, so that ruling is just. Now, suppose sometime down the road, the wife remarries and the new husband works full-time and is able to support them all. Does the ex-husband still have to pay child support? And what if the wife and new husband have a child? How does that work into the equation? Suppose the ex-husband now remarries, and he and his second wife have a child together. What then?
That is only a small sliver of the stuff that family courts have to slough through every day. But they handle it. If polygamy were allowed, the family courts can handle that also.
So, sorry, no. If the insane, illogical, ludicrous gay marriage is allowed, there is no reason that the insane, illogical, ludicrous polygamy should not be allowed. If we can allow the liberal extreme just because people feel like it, then we can allow the conservative extreme just because people feel like it.