A
poll yesterday found that Daily Kos would accept legalized polygamy by a margin of 54 to 30 percent. After
so ...
much ...
ridicule of GOP officials who support polygamy, I would have thought the dKos community would have actually opposed it.
The primary reasoning for allowing polygamy seems to be that the government should keep itself out of the bedrooms of consenting adults. I believe, however, that polygmay creates a structural inequality between what is almost universally the one man of the relationship and his multiple wives. If, for example, one man had six wives, each wife would have only one-sixth the standing of her husband. It would not be a co-equal union. This structural inequality is the same reason I would oppose a father marrying his daughter, even if the daughter were 18.
What do you think of this argument? And considering it, would you still allow polygamy? Vote in the poll.
Update: I'm considering polygamy as separate from polyfidelity, with polygamy being one person with multiple spouses, while polyfidelity is an interconnected group of spouses. See the Wikipedia article on
polyamory.