Yesterday I posted that we were off to the races as a 52 year-old man wanted to marry a 10 year-old girl and insists it must be legal or be made legal in Canada. Today the race is joined by the polygamy set. We still haven’t heard from the animal/human marriage set —or the fish/human crowd, but that should be upcoming shortly.
[…] Sayd Mumtaz Ali, president of the Canadian Society of Muslims, said he opposes same-sex marriage but said if it is legalized in Canada, polygamists would also be within their rights to challenge for their choice of family life to be legalized.
“This is a liberally minded country with regards to equal rights,” said Mr. Ali. “And literally millions live common law.”
Multiple marriage is legal in most Muslim countries, he said, but a Muslim man who takes more than one wife must prove to a court that he is capable of treating them all equally.
He said he knows of some “but not too many” Muslims who live in Canada with more than one wife but knows of no situation where the wives are unwilling, or unhappy, participants in the arrangement. […]
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