Senator Santorum

[Narvi]

On Tue, 6 May 2003, Colin Percival wrote:

> At 12:29 06/05/2003 -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> >On Tue, 6 May 2003, Colin Percival wrote:
> > >    Not quite.  Bigamy and polygamy aren't questions of sex; they're
> > > questions of marriage.
> >
> >They are also crimes in the US, which is the point he's making. Actually,
> >you're supporting my argument, even if you don't realize it. :) If we
> >decide that removing the laws against sodomy is ok because you have the
> >right to do whatever you want behind closed doors, then the laws against
> >the other things he mentioned should be removed too, for the same reason
> >(see below for one important qualification).
>
>    Bigamy isn't something which goes on behind closed doors.  Marriage is a
> matter of public record; someone who is only a bigamist behind closed doors
> is no more than an adulterer.
>

No, he need not be. He might be a polyamorist. After all, its not adultry
if the other half of the marriage knows and agrees to it, unless you take
some odd defintion of adultry.

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> Colin Percival
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