argh
I'm so sick of the misleading story I keep hearing about how two girls and a guy got 'married' in Belgium last week, thereby launching a million 'slippery slope' articles about how polygamy naturally follows from legalizing gay marriage. Bullshit. If anybody who heard of this could read Dutch or knew a thing about contract and marriage law here would realize that what these people have is not a marriage contract but a 'same-living' contract for people who share a house. The guy is already married to one of the women officially and this is a way for them to make the other woman an 'official' mistress. These types of contracts are not designed as a backdoor for polygamists anyway, they are a normal wholly financial arrangement. Friends of my boyfriend, two couples and one guy, recently signed the same contract (sure they didn't dress up in gowns and throw a party, but therein is one major difference) so that they could all share in a renovated farmhouse. This becomes yet another frustrating and ridiculous canard, which like anything else, only needs to be repeated enough times to become true to people wishing to believe the worst.