DOMA and Prop 8. Both History.

[eppie]

I happen to be friends with a woman in her late 20s who lives with three other women in a lesbian relationship, and has for the last six years steadily. They all have decent jobs, a couple of them really good jobs. They all contribute, but, they don't date men. Are you, eppie, going to tell them that they can't live like that? Who are they hurting?

They're not asking for the government to give them federal marriage benefits, so, they're just dealing fine with living differently. I've met all four of them, and they're pleasant and intelligent young women. They just aren't going to go out with males. I don't think that's a crime. (It's a *shame*, but, that's not the same thing. They're all very attractive from my point of view, but I digress. )

So, polygamy/polyamory isn't always automatically bad. Yes, the stereotypical sort is, but, not all.

Mavfin, I mentioned several times in this thread that it is fine for me. I just would not let them get married all together. Even though in your example the relation looks to be on a pretty equal basis. So in this situation my opinion would actually be to let them get married apart form the fact that you can't make laws like this and enforce them in an easy way (more than half of the arguments I give here are about that little aspect).

If you read my posts again (I know they are quite a few) you will see my issues are with relationships that are based on inequality.