Try to wrap your brain around the bizarre notion that a smart, female law professor, with all the societal privileges such a position offers, believes polygamy should be decriminalized.
It isn’t bizarre for anyone to believe in having more freedom to marry.
Carissima Mathen, of the University of New Brunswick, used to work for the Women’s Legal and Education Action Fund (LEAF).
The group promotes women’s equality and has pressed for things like universal day care, equal pay for work of equal value and the eradication of discrimination against aboriginal women.
So it’s strange that a lawyer who once worked for LEAF seems to think polygamy isn’t a big deal.
Again, why is it strange?
Instead of worrying about plural marriages, the authorities should concentrate on specific harms and use other Criminal Code laws, such as those prohibiting exploitation and forced marriage, to nail the perps, she explained.
Yes.
The law only requires proof of someone having a conjugal relationship with more than one person at the same time.
“At some point, we need to be comfortable with the idea that people will make choices that we disagree with. They’ll make choices that, to us, seem … not in their best interests,” Mathen said.
Full marriage equality is a matter of liberty and fairness.
The writer attacks the religions of others…
The trouble with that is only men (and the older ones, at that) have autonomy in polygamous communities, particularly the twisted breakaway Mormon commune in Bountiful, B.C. and the like-minded areas in the U.S. run by polygamist crackpots.
That’s not very nice.
Credible experts warn repeatedly that polygamy is harmful to women and children.
How, exactly?
Do we want to be the first western country to OK polygamy?
Canadians should be proud to further increase the freedom to marry. Future generations are going to look back, ashamed that there were these bans on marriage.
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