Comments on: Polygamists Indicted in British Columbia

By: A Voice of Sanity

A Voice of Sanity — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 04:19:35 +0000

A better approach might be to charge sexual assault by deception – to show that one or more of these women was incapable of giving informed consent to sexual relations due to a lack of education or worldly experience.

By: krs

krs — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:33:50 +0000

Religious belief may well animate much of the opposition to homosexual marriage. Does that make such opposition illegitimate?

No. But if only religious belief animates the opposition to homosexual marriage, then it’s hard to understand why that opposition should be written into the law.

By: Quidpro

Quidpro — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:25:12 +0000

Paul’s comments, and Prof. Maldonado’s post, succinctly illustrate why some oppose the recognition of same sex marriage. Once marriage is redefined to include same sex couples, what principle would bar, for example, polyamourous relationships from recognition as “marriage”?

Religious belief may well animate much of the opposition to homosexual marriage. Does that make such opposition illegitimate?

By: Paul Maurice Martin

Paul Maurice Martin — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:28:44 +0000

If grown women and men voluntarily enter polygamous relationships, I’d also have trouble specifying what the moral problem is with that or how it necessarily relates to religion other than those who insist that “Marriage is between one man and one woman” because they believe God told them this.

By: Cancelling Trip to Vancouver

Cancelling Trip to Vancouver — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:45:00 +0000

The Code makes it a crime for any person to enter into “any kind of conjugal union with more than one person at the same time.”

That is crazy. Threesomes are illegal?