That's why it's difficult -- a section specifically forbidding Mormon setups would be easy to write (although you'd probably need the notwithstanding clause to make it stick). Distinguishing between marriages which follow polygynous-only guidelines along with associated problematic patterns from polyamorous ones which are based on a relation between equals and only happen to be polygynous is more difficult. You could make a general provision and leave it for the courts, but that would make for a ton of uncertainty until a large body of case law built up.
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Date: 2011-11-24 02:38 am (UTC)