or that polyamory is when it's done by fashionable white people, and polygamy is when it's done by weird brown foreigners
I thought it was "polyamory is when it's done by New Yorkers (Californians?), polygamy is when it's done by Utahans," and weird brown people have harems and concubines instead.
(Though of course I also don't think this is a fair characterization)
Oh, I had forgot about Mormons - here in France, Muslim immigrants are the first thing that comes to mind on discussions of Polygamy.
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