Three's a Crowd

I thought this was certain never to happen -- that there was no slippery slope from 'two loving adults.'

For the record I think there really is a distinction, difficult as it is to explain in the Era of Litigious Libertinism, between gay couples and threesomes and foursomes and harems and shifting, slow-motion orgies and even stable, long term polygamous relationships. But neither my hope to see that distinction maintained nor that of anyone else may be adequate to keep us from teetering, insane legal doctrines at the wheel, off the cliff.

Comments

[Daniel Nexon]

This is really a different animal of a case, one dealing with financial responsibility of a biological parent. The analogy, I suppose, would be to joint custody decisions involving adoptive parents and biological parents who retroactively claim parental rights. Or to decisions that award partial custody to grandparents (e.g., of a deceased spouse where the live spouse has remarried).