No. Polygamy is marrying more than one partner. Polyamory is loving more than one partner.

Yep, pretty much this.

That could be taken care of by law (i.e. you cannot marry somebody else unless your previous spouse is also there and consents to it). And it would be fraud anyway, so grounds for divorce.

This sure would put the Mormons in something of a ecclesiastical quandary, and I approve of that.

Actually, Meri was super into them having more wives and even picked out another girl that she wanted them to marry but it didnt work out. Meri came from a polygamous background and she talked alot about her sister who died but because she was in a polygamous relationship her kids were taken care of by her sister…

Same here. There's nothing wrong with relationships being more than two people as long as everyone is okay with it. And yeah, sometimes you'll get annoyed with someone or jealous but that happens in every relationship.
Maybe it's just the disaffected Gen-Y in me, but I really can't figure out why I'm supposed to care…

Good point. But I'm assuming when we're talking about legalized polygamy, we're talking about a union in which all the partners consent.

Huh? I think I lost what you were trying to say. Can you explain more?

You'd have to prove she'd been "brainwashed", though. Plenty of Republicans were making the argument that liberals had been "brainwashed" by gay-rights activists into thinking that same-sex unions were okay.

Yes. A few of the wives (I've only watched a few episodes so I can't say exactly which ones) come from "plural families" (as they call them) of their own, so they've grown up with polygamy as their norm. Meri, the first wife, has hinted many times at how happy she was when she had Kody to herself, and how distraught…

but federal law should stipulate that the union must involve the consent of all members of the marriages (not consist of a man or a woman separately marrying multiple individuals)

Ya, I feel the same. Open marriages/relationships I can do, but actually being with and caring about more than one other person- I think that wouldn't work for me at all.

Sorry, just was a little confusing. Sounded like you were juxtaposing what was essentially the same thing :-)

None at all! In fact, I'm all for letting consenting adults do whatever they want and enter any agreement freely. I'm actually in favour of it. And also in favour of not getting married at all.

But there is something to be said that, if it were legal, rather than live in creepy hidden compounds with child brides, polygamists would live as part of normal society and we'd better be able to investigate child brides and other crap.

Consenting adults? No fraud involved? They'll pay taxes like any other marrieds?

Sure, but the woman in the relationship has a choice whether or not to be with a man who holds such beliefs. Sorry, never watched the show, but I'm assuming she has the power to "divorce" or leave the union if she wants.

"Polygamy" means simply being married to many people at the same time, from "poly" - many; and gamy "people."

More power to them I guess. How on earth do you handle more than one partner? My husband and I have actually talked about how there's no way he would handle another woman, and I do not want to babysit another man. Holy shit that would be a clusterfuck.

You know, I read some science fiction books by Robert Heinlein when I was young and impressionable. They made an impact on my thinking about marriage, even now, decades later. Because of those books, I never stop asking this question: As long as everyone involved is an adult, fully consenting, and not in the least…