Legalizing Group Marriage?
Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia Image by Getty Images via @daylife Image by Getty Images via @daylife Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia Image by Getty Images via @daylife Image by Getty Images via @daylife Polyamory describes relationships of three or more people — it literally means “many loves.” Polyamorists say they practice “ethical non-monogamy,” or relationships that emphasize open communication, respect, and fair treatment of one another. The debate about legal recognition of polyamorous relationships is already well underway. A major report issued in 2001 by the Law Commission of Canada asked whether marriages should be “limited to two people.” Its conclusion: probably not. A British law professor wrote in an Oxford-published textbook that the idea that marriage meaning two people is a “traditional” and perhaps outdated way of thinking. Elizabeth Emens of the University of Chicago Law School published a substantial legal defense of polyamory in a legal jo