Legalized Polygamy, Here We Come?
When Canada's Parliament last fall legalized same-sex marriage, the sponsors of the legislation were effusive in their reassurances that this was in no sense a precedent for polygamy. Less than three months after the bill was passed, that reassurance was demolished last week by the Ontario Court of Appeal. Reversing the ruling of a trial judge, the court decided that a child could have three legal parents, in this case his lesbian birth mother and her "wife" of 16 years, plus the father who donated the sperm and has taken an active role in raising the boy, now 5.
