So your position is that we should force people into a particular type of marriage, even if they don't want that type, because forcing people to do things 'liberates' them?

All your arguments against forcing women into polygamy apply to forcing people into heterosexual monogamy as well. It's the forcing that's the problem, not the result.

"Only humans can make the often difficult decision to stick to a single sexual partner." And Galahs ... you forgot Galahs ... people always forget Galahs when they try to write a 'serious' article with no factul basis.

"Forcing"? Jon J, I didn't see any reference in the article to forcing people into a particular form of marriage, what I read was about the need for people to stand up for something they think is important. Isn't that the basis of democracy?

I agree with the basis premise of this article. Monogamy is best for children.

As long as nobody tries to make it mandatory. That's always the risk.

Jon J,
You betray a bias in your post and one that is endemic in LGBTI activism, prejudice against mixed orientation couples.
Inter-orientation marriages have become the new taboo and like all taboos their basis is superstition and ignorance, who says mixed orientation marriages are something to fear or to be ashamed of?
Lets not forget too the dirty secret of coercion and use of force in same sex relationships, the problem is not that "society" is peeping through the blinds into the bedrooms of LGBTI people, it's that they're looking the other way.

Well that should mean we outlaw divorce! LOL!
Better a loving same gender family united and committed to each other, than a allegorical cat and a dog forced to cohabit out of economic necessity and or, religious indoctrination!
What sort of environment is that to raise children!
And then we wonder why many young immature rebels leave home at an early age, and then need to engage in some very immoral practices, simply to survive.
And then need something, usually addictive or self-harming, to help them live with their circumstances or suppress the conscience, and so on, in a downward immoral spiral, that only has one or two possible destinations!
Rhrosty.