IF I CAN MARRY I WANT TWO WIVES: Eleanor Brown

...Sound familiar? Considered a sicko for the way you structure your private life, jailed for your relationship, harassed by the state for a victimless crime? ...

Certainly some cultists (they're always men, it seems) "marry" little girls. But it's not the multiple marriages that are the real problem, it's the sexual interest in little girls who are too young to know what they're actually getting into.

So we call polygamists pedophiles. That's what "they" say about homos, too. But they're different issues, aren't they? ...

We certainly don't say that homosexuality should be banned because some people behave badly. (Married men cheating on their wives with other men, for example -- we don't demand jail for such adulterers.)

Polygamy, when practiced in an ethical and thoughtful manner, is just like homosexuality. There are no victims, everyone understands what's up and agrees to the relationship rules they've all drawn up. ...

Careful readers of my columns will send me gently teasing messages about my past opposition to same-sex marriage. This whole column seems to be in favor of marriage.

I'm a pragmatist, and marriage is now a legal given in the majority of Canada's provinces. Nothing I yell out into the vastness of the Internet will change that, and I have no choice but to move on.

Marriage is set up for two people only. If we have to have it, at least let's fight to make it the kind of marriage that takes it completely out of the control of those damnable moralists who'll only accept a state-sanctioned twosome as legitimate.

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