Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 21:21:35 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Senator Santorum Message-ID: <20030507211948.Y40030-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.1.20030506233728.07e23528@popserver.sfu.ca>
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On Tue, 6 May 2003, Colin Percival wrote: > At 12:29 06/05/2003 -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > >On Tue, 6 May 2003, Colin Percival wrote: > > > Not quite. Bigamy and polygamy aren't questions of sex; they're > > > questions of marriage. > > > >They are also crimes in the US, which is the point he's making. Actually, > >you're supporting my argument, even if you don't realize it. :) If we > >decide that removing the laws against sodomy is ok because you have the > >right to do whatever you want behind closed doors, then the laws against > >the other things he mentioned should be removed too, for the same reason > >(see below for one important qualification). > > Bigamy isn't something which goes on behind closed doors. Marriage is a > matter of public record; someone who is only a bigamist behind closed doors > is no more than an adulterer. > No, he need not be. He might be a polyamorist. After all, its not adultry if the other half of the marriage knows and agrees to it, unless you take some odd defintion of adultry. > > Colin Percival >
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