Bill Clinton once said that the difference between a Democratic presidential primary and a Republican one is that "Democrats want to fall in love. Republicans just fall in line."
[perfectpullquote align="left" cite="" link="" color="#000000" class="" size=""]The party that wins the presidency in 2016 will be the one with the more "likable" candidate at the top of the ticket. [/perfectpullquote]
Cultural markers pointing to plural marriage, from Sister Wives to the throuple, have sprung up among us over the last few years, fascinating "normal" Americans. Polygamy was, of course, one of the twin relics of barbarism (along with slavery) that the Republican Party promised to abolish in 1856. It took longer to abolish legalized polygamy than legalized slavery. But with the Supreme Court's 1878 decision in Reynolds v. United States, plural marriage met its final demise in American law.
Well, maybe not so final. Plural marriage is back. And some influential thinkers want to see it become not just legal but also normal.
