Civil Liberties: Would Ron Paul legalize polygamy?

[itsnobody]

No he would not. Right now marriage is a big issue because of the government benefits people get for marriage. Right now gays and polygamists can get married but it would not be legally recognized.

Without government benefits for any kind of marriage, all kinds of marriages would really be a non-issue.

 

[Krugerrand]

No he would not. Right now marriage is a big issue because of the government benefits people get for marriage. Right now gays and polygamists can get married but it would not be legally recognized.

Without government benefits for any kind of marriage, all kinds of marriages would really be a non-issue.

Just to clarify ... any claim to marriage by polygamists would be grounds for prosecution. This goes beyond benefits for them.

 

[itsnobody]

Just to clarify ... any claim to marriage by polygamists would be grounds for prosecution. This goes beyond benefits for them.

They can still get married but not call it a real marriage.

I mean if someone has multiple boyfriends or girlfriends they won't go to jail, adultery is also not criminal.

Ron Paul would not work to legally recognize any kind of marriage.

 

[ConsideringRonPaul]

Not gonna lie, legalized dueling would be so sweet. It would allow a much needed influx of honor to society haha. But, as for Ron's positions on marriage, I like getting the government out of it, I just wish it was more feasible. And what would be done about all the taxation and other benefits the state provides.

 

[Krugerrand]

They can still get married but not call it a real marriage.

I mean if someone has multiple boyfriends or girlfriends they won't go to jail, adultery is also not criminal.

Ron Paul would not work to legally recognize any kind of marriage.

Take a look at what you just wrote compared to what you originally wrote:

Right now gays and polygamists can get married but it would not be legally recognized.

Polygamy is not something that is not recognized ... it is criminalized. A gay couple can run up and down the streets claiming to be married, they do not go to jail for that. Polygamists risk jail for that.

You are correct that you will not go to jail for multiple boyfriends/girlfriends ... but polygamy risks jail. Polygamist must HIDE their lifestyle.

 

[Inny Binny]

We often hear about how two men might abuse their children just a little teensy bit more than heterosexual couples, and how two parents provide so much more support in time and money than a single mother.

Clearly the solution is lesbian polygamy, which would provide children with the safe environment they need, and the time they deserve.

 

[ibaghdadi]

Would Ron Paul allow people to marry more than one person at a time?

The question itself is loaded.

Libertarians are for getting government out of the business of marriage. That does not mean you have to "support" or "allow" any particular form of marriage, because it's not within the government's mandate to begin with.

Of course, how you privately feel about it is another subject entirely, but then again that shouldn't matter either.

 

[presence]

Not legalizing...

Decriminalizing.

Big difference. The federal government has no authority to involve itself in marriage. Marriage is a moral/religious/social construct not a legal construct.

We are all equal regardless of whether or not we are married, or whom we are married to. This is liberty.

Ron doesn't like the government recognizing "groups" only "individuals". There should not be any "group rights" only individual rights.

Married people shouldn't be treated any different by the federal government than single people. It is not the federal governments job to impose or imply morality, only to defend individual liberty.