Polygamy...

...so there's a trial in BC that starts today to argue whether polygamy is legal or illegal. The argument that it should be legal is based on the reasoning that's it's a religious belief and therefore should be allowed. For those who don't know what Polygamy is, the wikipedia definitions is:

"Polygamy is a form of marriage in which a person has more than one spouse at the same time, as opposed to monogamy in which a person has only one spouse at a time. When a man has more than one wife, the relationship is called polygyny; and when a woman has more than one husband, it is called polyandry. If a marriage includes multiple husbands and wives, it can be called group marriage."

You RARELY hear of a woman having more than one husband and I can take a guess as to why THAT would be! LOL! More than one man bugging, poking, making a mess, etc would drive me bananas!! I can, however, understand why a man would want multiple wives. All that cooking, cleaning, adoration and loving...I'm certain no man would turn that down. The problem I see with it is that it would be difficult to sort out the tax situation. Who claims who? How do you figure out Child Tax Benefits for each family? It would get quite complicated. Another thing is that if this passes as legal with the reasoning that it's a religious belief then where does it stop? You could have people starting religions for all kinds of reasons...does it set too much of a precedent?

"Going to the Chapel and we're....goooonna get married!" - Dixie Cups