Which Blue Cities and States Now Legally Recognize Throuples and Three Legal Parents? West Hollywood Says It’s “Just the Beginning”
West Hollywood, California, will allow throuples, foursomes and larger polyamorous groups to register their relationships with the city. The post Which Blue Cities and States Now Legally Recognize Throuples and Three Legal Parents? West Hollywood Says It’s “Just the Beginning” appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
TL;DR
- West Hollywood, California, has created a registry for throuples, foursomes, and larger polyamorous groups to register their committed relationships.
- Registered partners receive visitation rights at healthcare facilities and city jails, along with rental protections.
- The ordinance requires relationships to be consensual and prohibits them between blood relatives.
- West Hollywood's action is part of a broader trend in cities like Seattle, Portland, and Somerville, and states like California, to recognize multi-partner relationships and multiple legal parents.
- California, Nevada, New Jersey, Illinois, and Hawaii have laws recognizing various forms of domestic partnerships or civil unions.
- Seattle amended its city code to include consensual relationships with multiple partners and extended marital status protections to multigenerational households.
- Portland's ordinance defines protected family or relationship structures to include multi-partner and multi-parent families, consensually nonmonogamous relationships, and asexual and aromantic relationships.
- States like California, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Nevada, Vermont, Washington, and Washington D.C. allow children to have more than two legal parents.
- Conservative concerns include the potential normalization of polyamory and polygamy, and risks associated with children living with unrelated adults.
- Advocacy groups like Rewrite the BiLine and the Organization for Polyamory and Ethical Non-Monogamy have been instrumental in advocating for these protections.