New York Judge Paves Way for Recognition of ‘Multi-Person Relationships’
A New York judge opened the door to legal recognition of multi-partner relationships while ruling in a housing court case.
In a ruling on a dispute over a rent-stabilized apartment, Judge Karen May Bacdayan of the Civil Court of the City of New York, opined that the legal protection of same-sex relationships shouldn’t be limited to two people.
Remember the olden days, before the Great Trump Wars, back when the issue de jour tearing Ricochet apart was same-sex marriage? Some of us used to argue that it was a slippery slope that would inevitably lead to legal recognition of polygamy. Nonsense, came the reply, marriage in this country has always been between two people. Yes indeed, one man and one woman. But that’s different, that has no rational basis, that’s just bigotry!
And yet, here we are, not even a decade since Obergefell.
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