IN our society, marriage is understood to be the exclusive, monogamous union of two people for life.

Same-sex couples fit easily within this definition, while polygamists and polyamorists don’t.

Those people who hope or fear otherwise simply don’t understand our law, our society or the meaning of marriage. Their concern seems to be that the movement for same-sex marriage has raised the possibility of multiple-partner marriages (polygamous marriages between one man and several women or polyamorous marriages involving several men and women).

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Rodney Croome AM is the campaign director of Australian Marriage Equality. This piece is a response to an editorial in The Australian, “What’s love got to do with it?” on 24th May.