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Originally posted by Not Me
No one's on my ignore list and have read all the posts. The only one who has articulated a reason was Ty and it was that polygamy is abusive towards women.
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Not exactly. Better re-read those posts.
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I don't disagree with that as it is practiced by fundamentalist mormons, but so are many heterosexual monogamous relationships. So that is a weak argument.
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My point was that a legislature reaching that determination, weak as it may be, would get deference from the courts under rational-basis review.
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