Repeal GAR457, 'Defending Rights of Sexual and Gender Minorities'
Applauding the clear intent of GAR#457, which is to protect sexual minorities from unfair mistreatment from governments and their people;
Observing that GAR#457 mandates nations legalize polygamy;
Concerned, however, that GAR#457’s permissive approach, to polygamous marriages constitute a serious disruption of tax, intestacy, and medical beneficiary laws without providing a solution;
Troubled that polygamous marriage has serious implications on the underlying policies of intestacy law, which heavily relies on the presumption of paternity between a married couple, which would be distorted in polygamous marriages where one partner dies intestate;
Further troubles that permitting a surviving spousal share of a decedent’s estate in a polygamous marriage can either reduce the share of heirs in favor of multiple spouses or diminish the total estate amount for all parties by unnecessarily diluting the estate between all parties, in both cases failing utterly to benefit the heirs as intestacy policy intends;
Worried that polygamous marriage implicates medical and end of life decisions by splitting the power of durable attorney among multiple, potentially disparate parties;
Appalled that divorce proceedings between part, but not all, parties in a larger polygamous relationship would create spousal support requirements for individuals not necessarily part of the initial marriage through the confusing and complicated network of marriages;
Horrified that polygamous marriage can invoke marital tax benefits that do not produce the underlying societal incentives that those same benefits provide for monogamous marriage;
Shocked that some may even use marital tax benefits as a means of transferring financial assets without incurring transactional taxes, gaining an unfair and potentially competitive advantage over other taxpayers;
Believing that a superior replacement can both protect unjust mistreatment without requiring member states recognize polygamous marriages for practical, compelling purposes;
Hereby repeals GAR#457.
Target resolution
"I have no problem with most of the currently at-vote proposal. But the recognition of polygamous marriage creates systemic problems that nations are mostly inclined to evade by enforcing monogamous marriage."
