CANADIAN COURT DECISION: Colby Cosh

...Nearly six months ago I pointed out that the legal certification of polygamy (or, for that matter, polyandry) was a natural corollary of the logic of permitting gay marriage; others, notably Mark Steyn, have made the same case. About two-thirds of the readers I heard from on this subject disagreed with me. They ought to go back and read that second paragraph again: the Supreme Court has left itself--for better or worse--defenceless against polygamy. You don't think "views diverge" on how many people belong in a marriage? All they do, all over the world, is diverge. There is a great deal more "divergence of opinion" on this subject than there had ever been, before about 1970, on what sexes could get married. The language used here is so doctrinaire in its deference to disagreement that Muslims and unreformed Mormons have, to all intents, already won their case. Feminist opponents of polygamy in fundamentalist religious communities will find, soon, that the "living tree" bears bitter fruit.

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