My thoughts about marriage rights

[suecochran]

Nancy Lebovitz has a button that says "Respect traditional marriage; one robot, one octopus." I've been thinking about that for a while since Shore Leave in June, and I felt that I'd like to express my thoughts and feelings (regarding that snarky sentiment but in a more serious manner) about marriage rights. After noodling around with these

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[suecochran]

That would not surprise me at all. I don't think America is ready to acknowledge poly rights yet either, sadly.

[pocketnaomi]

I think that when we (hopefully) get poly marriage rights, it will involve changing the details of what is automatically included in the package when you marry somebody, so that one has to actually choose a pecking order for certain purposes. For example, we could stipulate that, unless someone has only one spouse, being married to somebody doesn't give you default status as next-of-kin. Someone who wanted there to be a next of kin who could decide on things for them would have to write that out, as they might with a will (and with the same required witnesses), and choose one person as their next of kin for decisionmaking purposes -- otherwise there wouldn't be any, their spouses included. I'm not sure what currently happens to burial decisions or such when there is not a next of kin who's available but there are clearly interested parties. Whatever it is, though, it could probably be modified for the purpose. And that way, if someone wanted to marry six people but have one person (whether that be one of their spouses or somebody else

[agrumer]

Anyone who claims both that they "respect traditional marriage" and also opposes polygamy is either lying or woefully ignorant about the history of marriage. Or maybe they only respect Christian traditions.

[agrumer]

I posted this on Facebook too, and got these two replies so far:

Mary commented "Romans 1:24-27"

Joe commented back "Amendment XIV"

I love it!

[scruffycritter]

Hey, if they can suggest reading material for me, I can suggest stuff for them.

[pocketnaomi]

How about "Respect Traditional Marriage -- Let Everyone Have It!"

[pocketnaomi]

I love it!