CMV: If you support gay marriage, you must also support polygamous/polyamorous marriages

First off, I am not homophobic or anything. I just genuinely want some clarification or debate on this topic.

If you support gay marriage, you must support polygamous/polyamorous marriages as well, otherwise it is contradictory. I feel that the exact same arguments that are made for gay marriage could also be made for poly marriages.

When many people began to call for gay marriage legalization, the conservatives on the issue stated that it would violate the foundation of marriage: their belief that marriage is to be between two, fully consenting adults of different sexes. This was the general perception of marriage to many people at the time. However, gay marriage advocates claimed that the general definition of marriage needed to change in order to respect the rights of a large portion of our society. They said that marriage isn't just between people of two different sexes, and that marriage is just a union between two fully consenting adults. In essence, they changed the general perception of what marriage is supposed to be.

However, if one can change one part of the general definition of marriage, why can't one change another part? Why does marriage have to be between two fully consenting adults? Why not three, or four? As long as poly relationships don't violate the consent of an individual, it would be a violation of their rights to not allow them to marry, in the same way it would be a violation of a homosexual's rights if he/she was not allowed to marry.

The same arguments that anti-gay marriage advocates generally pertain to poly couples as well: it's unnatural, it violates the definition of marriage, it's against my religion. If one denies this arguments in the name of homosexual marriage, one must also deny them in the name of poly marriages.

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