And why would they want to?
And yes they can...in 30 some states is it now?
But they still won't.
Billy, Jim, Marie, Joan, and Tom love each other and want to make a legal binding committment by getting married. Current laws prohibit these 5 loving committed people from marrying. They are being discriminated against because of who they love. That is not fair, it is not equal, it violates the 14th amendment.
But as soon as gay marriage of two women or two men is legalized by the federal government, then these 5 people can finally get equal treatment because the gay marriage laws will have set a valid legal precedent for all forms of group marriage.
Then I'm sure you'll do everything in your power to help polygamist achieve civil marriage here in the US of A, won't you? I think it's a great way to spend your time...it has a close to zero chance of being achieved and it would keep you busy. Win-win!
Tell me which countries have slippery sloped into polygamy from gay marriage equality? How about which countries have slippery sloped into gay marriage equality from polygamy? What? None you say? And yet you're absolutely positive that will happen here.
Too funny.
It will happen here. The ACLU is already preparing lawsuits. And, once gay marriage becomes the law of the land, there will be absolutely no argument that can be brought to deny all forms of group marriage.
You may think it funny, but it is coming. Once the equal rights argument is sustained for gay couples, then group marriage cannot be legally argued against.
Will you, as a lesbian, campaign against bigamy and polygamy? On what basis would you argue against it?