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A unanimous vote among the three members of the Seattle City Council’s Housing, Arts and Civil Rights Committee forwarded a proposal to the full council that would amend sections of the Seattle Municipal Code to “recognize genders outside the gender binary, recognize pansexuality and asexuality as orientations, and include consensual relationships with multiple partners as an element of attitudes, preferences, and practices pertaining to sexual orientation.”
The protections would apply to employment, housing, business licensure, places of public accommodation, park usage, and “bias-free policing,” according to the proposal.
Seattle would follow Portland, West Hollywood, Berkeley, California, and a handful of other cities in adopting the expanded protections against discrimination. Under the bill, residents facing unfair treatment could file complaints and seek remedy through Seattle’s Office for Civil Rights.
Honestly as a monograms lesbian in a 27 year marriage, I will never understand why you can’t be married to multiple people of you want to be? So much for land of the free huh
Lol monogamous
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Inheritance, medical decisions, child custody, and a dozen other spouse rights get really difficult when they become three person issues.
These are settled issues. Turns out last remaining parents with multiple children die all the time leaving more than one person to make decisions and settle inheritance.
Spousal rights < parental rights. Step parents are generally (BIG emphasis on generally here, you can what if this shit to death, your specific cases where the parents aren’t fit are not what we’re talking about here) made to defer to the child’s actual parents when making decisions for that child. I can imagine family court, when it comes to that, will come to the same conclusion with polyspousal relationships. The good news is a system exists to deal with it.
Inheritance, like anything without a will, is split equally among the remaining next of kin, in this case, multiple remaining spouses.
It’s already advisable to have a Will in place and to discuss what your preferences are medically with your partner, that wouldn’t change with multiple partners. Just like a single parent with multiple children.
Even if these issues weren’t settled, even if you have some stupid specific edge case that invalidates everything I’ve said so far, it doesn’t fucking matter. These are not problems. They’re inconveniences. They can be settled and are no reason to stand in the way of consenting adults seeking happiness at
Those are already difficult with just two people. I’m not sure it would be that much more difficult with a third.
Taxes probably.
And religious self-righteousness of course.
It was probably just the Mormons that ruined that for you.
I’m sure in a different time line where the Mormons where not so controversial and vitial in their role of stealing land from mexico and the natives then it might not of been so much of a bad thing.
But I think most of our laws against poly stem from the the feud between the united States and the Mormons. There was some drama about redrawing boundary lines or the Mormons wanted to succeed and the state/feds made poly illegal as one of many ways they targeted the Mormons. I think being poly was precieved as slavery. Which under the Mormons it probably was essentially slavery to be fair.
This kind of ignores the fact that every country that isn’t the US and never had Mormons still chose monogamy as the law.
I’m american so my perspective always gets warped into telling the story as if we are the world.
But yeah I agree with your point. More or less it was a fun snippet into history and relevant law.
It’s will all relevant because thats around the civil war and slavery. polygamy was kind of thrown into the same camp as slavery as I brought up. And to make it not from the perspective about the united states, much of the rest of the world was going through a similar experience and asking if slavery was nessisary. I can’t tell you who took the lead but I can tell you we certainly where not the first. So I guess maybe it wasn’t all because the Mormons, but who knows maybe it had a influence, the states could of still had it legalized.
You mean the other Christians. Mormon men wanted to marry multiple wives, the other denominations said no fuck you to one denomination. They are all Christians.
In law, we still place our hand on a Bible and swear by it, etc. The difference is just that Catholics and Protestants and whoever else were already dominant in society when Mormonism arose, and the other Christians were threatened by that and were like like nah bro you aren’t real Christians we run this land get fucked like all the other minorities