IGF co-managing editor Jonathan Rauch, who moonlights at the
National Journal, weighs in to the polygamy debate with One Man, Many Wives, Big
Problems. He writes:
So far, libertarians and lifestyle liberals approach polygamy as an individual-choice issue, while cultural conservatives use it as a bloody shirt to wave in the gay-marriage debate. The broad public opposes polygamy but is unsure why. What hardly anyone is doing is thinking about polygamy as social policy.
Let's hope this helps frame the issue as something other than a
cudgel to use against gay marriage.