Why is it legal for a guy to marry a guy but illegal for a guy to marry two wives?

[Manicron]

[slatyb]

Marriage is a legality, and there aren't enough people who want plural marriage to motivate legislators to write the law. Is all the income of all the parties joint property? What if one person wants to leave the marriage? Do they receive a fraction of all the joint property? How much?

[Nikki1989]

The legalization of same-sex marriage was primarily about equal protection under the law and non-discrimination. The laws prohibiting a person from marrying two wives are known as anti-polygamy or anti-bigamy laws. These laws have a different historical and legal foundation.

The two have nothing to do with each other.

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

Polygamist marriages do legally exist if you find the right officiant. Usually you also have to claim to be part of a cult or something, but they exist.

[slatyb]

Where? Not in the United States as far as I know.

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

Try polygamist branches of the LDS church

[slatyb]

Those marriages are not legally recognized, and in many cases the leaders of those sects have been prosecuted for raping girls.

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

I’m not poly and my education on the marriage idea is limited. Look it up

[slatyb]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Jeffs

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

I’m not reading that idc

[Pohjolan]

Its a relic from the past established for the sake of social cohesion.

Now that enforced monogamy is out of the window there isn't exactly a point in keeping up appearances.

Companion bots are anyway behind the corner to fix the excess single men issue.

[Aubrey97]

One person can marry one other person. That's it. You're trying to compare two things that aren't the same situation.

[genericname85]

Originally, men could only marry women and women could only marry men. So that was two things that aren't the same and yet here we are :D

[slatyb]

That's it? Legally, it is. Still some people do form plural marriages, they just aren't legally recognized. This leaves one person with little claim on the joint assets.

[FreyaRed]

Is it legal for a guy marry two guys, if same sex marriages are allowed?

[Anonymous]

such guys wouldn't need marriage when they've got side chicks

[Ariesman81]

The old saying... death by a thousand cuts. Give an inch, they'll take a mile.

[slatyb]

the old "slippery slope" argument -- legalize gay marriage and next we'll have cats and dogs sleeping together or whatever.

[Ariesman81]

@slatyb

Exactly... didn't we just get done having an argument about if men should be allowed in women's bathrooms? And..."What is a woman?" Seems like gay marriage opened the door to whole lot of confusion.

[slatyb]

What are you confused about? I'm not confused. As far as restroom choice goes, women are in far more danger from heterosexual men than they are from trans women.

[Ariesman81]

@slatyb

Tell me you had your pronouns listed, without telling me you had your pronouns listed.😂

[slatyb]

Typical ad hominem argument from people with no data supporting their beliefs.

ad hominem -- (of an argument or reaction) directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining.

[Ariesman81]

Hello brick wall, I just wanted to let you know that I'm going to beat my head against you. It'd be great if you could change into a pillow.

[Anonymous]

Good point, I wonder the same. Or why a girl can't marry two guys.

[loveyouoak]

Because one is normal and the other is abnormal.

[slatyb]

According to whom? What is "normal"? Whatever makes you comfortable?

[loveyouoak]

According to the law.

[slatyb]

The law makes no comment on what is "normal". It defines legal marriage for two people, and prohibits multiple marriages. This is reasonable because many multiple marriages involve one person being secretly married to two people, creating a disadvantageous legal situation for the second spouse. There is no provision for consensual poly marriages because there is not enough demand to justify the time needed to write and pass such laws.

[loveyouoak]

Thanks for the info.

[jahaims]

Your attempt at logic is humorous

[In_Trance]

This is the logic of the church and the state

[shortster]

You can marry two women if you are Muslim.