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Polyamorous relationships don't involve the marriage of the people involved, and aren't captured by either section 290 or 293 of the ''Criminal Code''. While pairs of adults in a polyamorous relationship may be married to each other, no one person is married to more than one other person at a time. | Polyamorous relationships don't involve the marriage of the people involved, and aren't captured by either section 290 or 293 of the ''Criminal Code''. While pairs of adults in a polyamorous relationship may be married to each other, no one person is married to more than one other person at a time. | ||
The other distinguishing characteristic of polyamorous relationships is that while polygamous marriages tend to be motivated by religious beliefs and revolve around men — ''Sister Wives'' is a very good example of these attitudes, and in fact polygamy was originally criminalized as a response to the spread of the fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to which Kody Brown and his family are adherents — | The other distinguishing characteristic of polyamorous relationships is that while polygamous marriages tend to be motivated by religious beliefs and revolve around men — ''Sister Wives'' is a very good example of these attitudes, and in fact polygamy was originally criminalized as a response to the spread of the fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to which Kody Brown and his family are adherents — polyamorous relationships tend to be motivated by a belief in the importance of freedom of choice, equality among the members of a relationship, and honesty. | ||
==Resources and links== | ==Resources and links== | ||
