![]() It constitutes unjust discrimination, she argues, to restrict marriage to romantic or sexual relationships. If “everybody should have the right to marry,” Rick Santorum asked on the campaign trail earlier this year, then “what about three men?” While Santorum clearly intended this quip as a reductio ad absurdum of calls for marriage equality, the Arizona State University philosopher Elizabeth Brake argues in Minimizing Marriage that recognizing polygamous and polyamorous unions is not only required by justice but doesn’t go far enough.įor Brake, marriage not only should not be restricted to opposite-sex couples, or indeed to couples at all. Opponents of same-sex marriage are quick to raise the specter of polygamy. Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law, by Elizabeth Brake, Oxford University Press, 240 pp., $24.95.ĭoes legalizing gay marriage go far enough? This article was originally published by C4SS Senior Fellow and Molinari Institute President Roderick T. ![]()
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