Canadian study recommends legalizing polygamy

[maelorin]

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Canadian study recommends legalizing polygamy
Friday, January 13, 2006
Nishat Hasan

[JURIST] A study commissioned by the Canadian Justice Department and obtained by Canadian Press has urged the Canadian federal government to legalize polygamy to help protect women and children in those relationships. Section 293 of the Canadian Criminal Code currently bans polygamy, although a few Canadian provinces give limited recognition to foreign polygamous marriages for spousal support. The study, authored by three law professors at Ontario's Queen's University Faculty of Law, was prompted in part by concerns by British Columbia authorities about whether they should charge members of the Bountiful religious community in Creston, BC, which practices polygamy openly. The Canadian parliament legalized same-sex marriage across Canada in 2005.

Canadian Press has more.

wtf?

Comments

[maelorin]

i just don't see how it "protects the women and children" to legalise polygamy. it's certainly not the first option that came to my mind, nor is it the only one.

i may not be canadian, but i have enough understanding of common law and civil law and international law to have a decent stab at the framework of human rights and so forth at play there.

true polyamory is quite different from "religiously premissive plural conjugation" ... [aka parallel, male-centric sexual relationships clothed in the mantle of "god says it's ok/required"]

nor do i see any reason to relax age and other requirements that would apply to any/every other marriage.


i agree with richard dawkins more often than not - religion has been allowed a peculiar position in society - one that would be considered unjust, unlawful, and just plain unbelieveable if it were anything else.

[paigedayspring.livejournal.com]

The people who made that study must be on drugs. If this goes through (and considering everything you've told me) this would make Canada a laughing stock on the Human Rights front.

[maelorin]

frankly, i'm not sure of the details of this. i'd be interested to find out more - particularly from someone in canada. i think my understanding is a tad simplistic O_O