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| The Next Marriage Frontier: Biblical Polygyny, Gen Z Polyamory- America's Future Legal Battleground |
| 2026-01-18 |
| [RedState] America spent the last decade insisting that redefining marriage to include same-sex couples would never open the door to anything else. Opponents were dismissed as hysterical, warned that slippery slopes weren’t real. But marriage did not stop evolving at "two people." A new frontier is forming — not directly from the LGBTQ movement, but from two radically different cultural currents now converging on the same legal question. On one side is a revival of biblical polygyny, championed by figures such as Missouri pastor Rich Tidwell and author and cultural commentator Rob Kowalski. On the other is Gen Z’s normalization of polyamory, open relationships, and multi-partner domestic partnerships. The two movements share almost no cultural DNA. But they share one legal pressure point: America’s 19th-century bigamy and polygamy laws, and the longstanding assumption that marriage must involve only two adults. Beneath both movements lies an even deeper force — the West’s accelerating demographic decline. While traditionalists clutch their pearls and the manosphere warms up the popcorn, a deeper collision is forming beneath the noise. The revival of biblical polygyny and Gen Z’s rapidly growing embrace of polyamory are both pressing against marriage laws written in the 1800s. If both sides push at once, the legal structure that has confined marriage to two consenting adults may not remain intact. While the more left-leaning, secular phenomena of polyamory, ethical non-monogamy, polycules, open relationships, and "situationships" abound, the unexpected conversation around Biblical polygyny or plural marriage has been largely undiscussed by mainstream or conservative media, beyond critique. Related: Polygyny 09/28/2019 Muslim leaders call for polygamy to be legalised in Russia Polygyny 01/24/2008 The Middle East's Tribal Affliction Polygyny 07/08/2007 Why: Most suicide bombers are Muslim Related: Polyamory 02/26/2025 DNI Tulsi Gabbard moves to terminate, revoke security clearances of NSA employees tied to explicit chatrooms Polyamory 02/25/2025 What DEI also means: secret IC transgender s*x chatroom logs revealed Polyamory 03/09/2023 Russia is a country of victorious feminism |
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