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In reply to the discussion: Gay people can have multipartner relationships too. [View all]Tatiana La Belle
(152 posts)Turley meant.
From later in that article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-trouble-with-the-dignity-of-same-sex-marriage/2015/07/02/43bd8f70-1f4e-11e5-aeb9-a411a84c9d55_story.html
...Dignity is a rather elusive and malleable concept compared with more concrete qualities such as race and sex. Which relationships are sufficiently dignified to warrant protection? What about couples who do not wish to marry but cohabitate? What about polyamorous families, who are less accepted by public opinion but are perhaps no less exemplary when it comes to, in Kennedys words on marriage, the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family? The justice does not specify. It certainly appears as if Obergefell extends this protection because same-sex unions are now deemed acceptable by the majority. The courts may not be so readily inclined to find that other loving relationships are, to quote the opinion, a keystone of the Nations social order when they take less-orthodox forms. But popularity hardly seems like a proper legal guide to whether a relationship is dignified.....