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Originally Posted by Colombine
The difficulty is in defining "principle" next-of-kin for legal purposes.
If ten people want to live together that's fine by me but whereas the legal dynamic of two opposite or same-sex people marrying is the same, it's obviously completely difficult when more are party to the contract.
That in a sense would be truly "re-defining marriage" from a legal perspective.
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Precisely. That is my intention: that legal "marriage" should be renamed and redefined to something that's less coupled with Christian marriage, and one that's more aligned with secular values. Naturally, if you're including polygamy, you'll have more legal issues to figure out.
Of course, we could do away with the legal concept altogether. I don't see that it is all that necessary. I just think that if it exists, it should not discriminate among adult citizens. I suppose that one could still limit it to only two people, in the interest of avoiding the resulting issues and potential abuses. The addition of polygamy is no more necessary than legal "marriage" contracts to begin with, but it's still just as doable as the two-person "marriage" contract.