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Regardless of your personal feelings.
The polyamorous are currently in both married and long term relationships and raising children without the governmental benefits of marriage for each of the parties involved. This is a form of discrimination and needs to be addressed.
Some blogs and articles on the topic (and yes, some of them quote Justice Roberts. You can agree with someone's logic without liking the rest of their politics.) All of these sites are left or libertarian. There are no conservative or RW Christians among them.
Poly Marriage Law?
http://www.jefftk.com/p/poly-marriage-law
PolyFamilies
http://www.polyfamilies.com/polymarriage.html
Legalize Polygamy!
http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2013/04/legalize_polygamy_marriage_equality_for_all.html
Four clueless denials that a poly marriage issue exists
http://polyinthemedia.blogspot.com/2015/07/clueless-denials-that-poly-marriage.html
After Gay Marriage, Why Not Polygamy?
http://www.vice.com/read/after-gay-marriage-why-not-polygamy
Polyamorous Paganism
http://thorandthoth.blogspot.com/2013/03/fighting-for-polyamorous-marriage.html
Natalie Bennett is open to polyamorous marriages and civil partnerships
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/05/01/natalie-bennett-is-open-to-polyamorous-marriages-and-civil-partnerships/
Should Plural Marriage Be Legal?
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/12/17/should-plural-marriage-be-legal
Is There a Right to Polygamy? Marriage, Equality and Subsidizing Families in Liberal Public Justification
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1346900
This paper argues that the four most plausible arguments compatible with public reason for an outright legal ban on all forms of polygamy are unvictorious. I consider the types of arguments political liberals would have to insist on, and precisely how strongly, in order for a general prohibition against polygamy to be justified, while also considering what general attitude towards marriage and legal recognition of the right to marry is most consistent with political liberalism. I argue that a liberal state should get out of the marriage business by leveling down to a universal status of civil union neutral as to the gender and affective purpose of domestic partnerships. I then refute what I regard as the four most plausible rational objections to offering this civil union status to multi-member domestic partnerships. The most common objection to polygamy is on grounds of gender equality, more specifically, female equality. But advancing this argument forcefully often involves neglecting the tendency of political liberalism (by whatever name it goes in contemporary, complex, multicultural societies) to tolerate a certain amount of inequality in private, within the bounds of robust and meaningful freedoms of choice and exit. Properly understood, polygamy involves no inherent statement about the essential inferiority of women, and certainly not more than many other existing practices and institutions (including many expressions of the main monotheistic religions) which political liberals regard as tolerable, even reasonable. Arguments from the welfare of children, fairness in the spousal market, and the abuse of family subsidies are also considered and found insufficient for excluding polygamy.