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- cohabiting;
- providing financially for each other;
- having or adopting children; or
- being committed to each other.
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people cannot marry under the current law of marriage. Gay and lesbian couples are only some of them. Two additional categories of such
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financial interdependence, couched only in terms of privacy, intimacy, and autonomy, then what non-arbitrary ground is there for denying the
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consist of two homosexual strangers on the
principle that they love and care for each other, then that same principle would allow relatives who love and care for each other to marry.
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daughter's child could marry each other.
(A) Polygamous Unions
If our courts, our legislatures, or our employers (private or governmental) were to recognize unions consisting of one man and two or more
women, based on the principle that the man loves the women and the women love the man, then additional forms of plural marriage would
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The conventional term for a marriage of one man and two or more women is polygamy. More properly, it is polygyny. Polygamy is a broader term
encompassing any form of plural marriage. Given the equality of the genders, polyandry, consisting of marriage between one woman and two or
more men, would need to be recognized.