The 49-year-old said Tuesday that she is ending her 25-year “spiritual union” with patriarch Kody Brown, who she shares with three other women. “Sister Wives” star Christine Brown is done with her polygamist family.
Instead we should recognize that once we abandon the rigid constraints of history, we cannot be sure that we know where the future will take us.”įor the sake of both legal and intellectual consistency, should the U.S.‘Sister Wives’ star Janelle Brown tells partner Kody to ‘f–k off’
And we should not assume we have them either. Rauch were advocating it only two decades ago… We should not assume that our judges have all the answers. Very few people supported a constitutional right to same-sex marriage when writers like Andrew Sullivan and Mr. “The deeper point is that we should remember that today’s showstopping objections sometimes come to seem trivial decades later. Posner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit rejected a right to plural marriage because it would lead to gender imbalances if ‘the five wealthiest men have a total of 50 wives.’ Similarly, the same-sex marriage advocate Jonathan Rauch has argued that polygamy allows ‘high-status men to hoard wives’ and destabilizes society.” It is worth noting that slippery-slope arguments represented one of the principal defenses used by opponents of same-sex marriage. Thus, “ Writing in Slate after the decision in Obergefell, Judge Richard A. The main arguments against polygamy are slippery-slope arguments (“what could happen if so-and-so was allowed), which are notoriously weak. By those lights, groups of adults who have profound polyamorous attachments and wish to build families and join the community have a strong claim to a right to marry.”
That right was about autonomy and fulfillment, about child rearing and the social order. Instead, its main focus was on a ‘fundamental right to marry’-a right that he said could not be limited to rigid historical definitions or left to the legislative process. Kennedy’s majority opinion in Obergefell did not focus primarily on the issue of sexual orientation. The title of a piece in today’s New York Times poses the question: “Is Polygamy Next?” In it, University of Chicago law professor William Baude discusses the precedent for legalizing polygamy in America-a precedent created by the legalization of same-sex marriage.īaude believes there is a very good argument in favor of legalizing polygamy:
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