Tackling interesting and unusual issues is very much a "germane LW discourse". And I don't see this crowd trying to politicize this particular issue.
"What discussions are germane to LW discourse?" is currently an open question being discussed. For example, in Focus on Rationality, Oscar_Cunningham demarcates germane vs not-germane by the following criterion:
I'm suggesting is that LessWrong posts [...] should focus on rationality. They can talk about other things too, but the question should always be "What can X teach us about rationality?"
By that criterion, this post certainly isn't germane. But I disagree with Oscar and think his criterion is too restrictive. I laid out my th...
A thought occurred to me today as I skimmed an article in a rationality forum where the subject of gay marriage cropped up; seeing as the issue has been hotly contested in various public fora and especially the courts, what about poly? After all, many if not all the arguments for gay marriage apply to poly marriage as well.
Questions for LWers who are currently in a such a relationship, or have an opinion to share:
Do polies want to marry each other or do such relationships not lend themselves to permanence above a threshold of partners? Should polies campaign for the right for a civil union anyway? what are the up and down sides of this? etc