“Polyamorous and consanguineous marriages are not the same thing as
same-gender marriage.” So what? We’re talking about
consenting adults who want
to be together, and there’s no good reason to stop them. Some same-gender
relationships and marriages
are polygamous and/or
consanguineous. A man
should not only be able to marry another man, but two or more other men or his
brother.
Strictly speaking, whether a marriage is same-gender or heterosexual
is
a different category than whether it is monogamous or polygamous; or exogamous or interracial,
endogamous, or consanguineous. Some heterosexual marriages are monogamous, some
are polygamous. Some same-gender marriages are monogamous, some are polygamous.
Bisexuals may be in monogamous marriages or polygamous marriages. Some
monogamous marriages are consanguineous, some aren’t. That monogamous/polygamous
and exogamous/endogamous/consanguineous are different categories from
heterosexual/same-gender is not a justification to deny the freedom to marry to
consenting adults, or deny them marriage equality. Relationship rights belong to all adults.
It should be noted that when there is a polyamorous relationship, whether a "V" or a triad or more, at least two of the people involved are the same gender, even if they are no more than metamours to each other.
Something does not have to be immutable or inborn, like sexual orientation, to be
legal. However, there are people (especially with
Genetic Sexual Attraction)
who are in consanguineous relationships who would swear to you that they
couldn’t love anyone as much as they love their partner(s). They were born into
their situations. There are people who are obviously unable to be monogamous,
to the point of being willing to suffer loss of job, loss of reputation, loss
of wealth, and figurative and literal loss of life, and they should not promise monogamy nor be pressured to pretend to be monogamous.
Some people simply
are
polyamorous.
That these other categories are not the same thing as same-gender marriage
does not explain why there are still laws against them or a lack of relationship protections in the law.
There is no good reason to deny an adult, regardless of gender, sexual
orientation, race or religion, the right to share love, sex, residence, and
marriage (or any of those without the others) with any and all consenting adults without prosecution, bullying, or
discrimination.
Feel free to share, copy and paste, and otherwise distribute. This has
been adapted from this page at Full Marriage Equality:
http://marriage-equality.blogspot.com/p/discredited-invalid-arguments.html
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