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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (28051)	2/5/2004 2:36:21 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793917

I still do not understand how you craft the law so that it allows gay marriage but forbids polygamy. You can't. You simply can't. On the other hand, I don't really see why polygamy should be illegal, myself. Marrying children and animals should be illegal because they don't have the capacity to consent. Marrying close relatives is bad for the gene pool. But polygamy between consenting adults harms no one. It is contrary to some religions, acceptable in others, so it seems to me that it's a matter of personal conscience. In fact, I think polygamy between members of the opposite sex is culturally preferable to homosexual marriages, because the spouses can procreate. Immediately before Utah becoming a state, the US Congress outlawed polygamy, made it a federal crime, but also decreed that polygamists were not eligible to vote. Talk about fixing an election!