Same-sex marriage
Does Polygamy Have a Legal Future in the U.S.?
Having written previously about polyamory (maintaining multiple romantic relationships) and polygamy (well, really, polygyny — having more than one wife at at time,) I have been intensely interested in the on-going case in Texas, in which more than 400 children of polygamists were put into temporary state custody following allegations of physical and sexual abuse [...]
11May2008 | Andrea Useem | 6 comments | ContinuedPolyamory and the Same-Sex Marriage Debate
What does polyamory have to do with gay marriage? On the surface, not much: polyamory, by definition, is about love, not marriage, and in researching her article on faith and polyamory, ReligionWriter didn’t encounter a single polyamorist either in person or online who advocated changing the laws of their state to allow more than two [...]
1Nov2007 | Andrea Useem | 1 comment | Continued