Apparently, there is a word for this: throuple.
When asked what the benefits are to having three people in a marriage, one of the ladies notes that chores are much easier when distributed between three people; good point. She went on to say: “poly-fidelity is not something seedy…. it can be a perfectly acceptable choice of life and love.”
The obvious question for the Western Anglican Church is, since blessing same sex married couples is now de rigueur, what possible reason could our trendy bishops have for not blessing – for excluding – committed poly-monogamous throuples? After all, Jesus said absolutely nothing about poly-fidelity.
From here:
Doll, Kitten and Brynn, from Massachusetts, were joined together in a marriage-style ceremony last August and are expecting a daughter in July.
Kitten, 27, is pregnant after undergoing IVF treatment using an anonymous sperm donor, and the trio eventually plan to have three children – one for each of them.
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The so-called ‘throuple’ worked with a specialist family lawyer who drew up the paperwork and drafted the ceremony so that all three of them were obligated and bound to each other .
While Brynn and Kitten are legally married, Doll is handfasted to both so the threesome are as equally married to each other as legally possible.
Will they all use the same sperm donor? if not, why not?
Is this a joke? Please say it is.
If only it were. But read the article and you will see it gets even worse. One of them is pregnant by IVF. The other two want to have children also. Three moms and three children, that is what they are planning. God help those poor children, especially if any of them are boys.
And to think people ridiculed me a few years ago when I suggested that legalization of gay marriage would be followed by demands to legalize polygamy. Even I didn’t see this one coming.
Demands for the recognition of polygamist marriages have existed before demands to recognize of same sex marriage… at least in Canada. There is a community in BC (Bountiful) that has been living as polygamists since the 1940’s and have been fighting for legalization ever since.
Unfortunately, polygamy is nothing new. It exists in many cultures. In the west, we have different partners at different times.
Now of the Threesome we love most
The Father, Son and Holy Ghost,
They caught the last train for the coast
The day that marriage died.
Readers please note that when David says “Jesus said absolutely nothing about poly-fidelity” it is with tongue in cheek. In Matthew 19 Jesus describes marriage as follows: “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?”
He did not need to repeat three times the gender mix “male and female”, “man and wife”, “father and mother” nor did he have to mention the number “two,” nor did he have to point out that he was quoting God the creator. Presumably he added all those details because he knew that clarity would be helpful 2000 years later.
This is not ‘polygamy’. Polygamy, for example, involves a man with multiple wives, but in such a relationship the wives are not married to each other. A polyamorous relationship such as the one in the article is one in which each is in a sexual relationship with each of the others. In other words, a ‘group’ marriage, which is quite a different thing to polygamy.