It was revealed this week that two women and one man have entered into a civil union in Sao Paulo, Brazil in a legally recognized ceremony, thus making Brazil the first and only nation in the world to legally conduct a three-person "marriage."
Brazil's acceptance of the three-person civil union is a by-product of that nation's decision to extend civil partnerships to same-sex couples.
A public notary in Sao Paulo -- who authorized Brazil's first three-person civil union -- said she saw nothing in the law that prevents such an arrangement. She even went so far as to say "what we considered a family before isn't necessarily what we consider a family today."
We disagree with Sao Paulo's public notary, as we believe that marriage -- or a civil union, for that matter -- should be a union of one man and one woman.
Moreover, we believe that conducting a civil union ceremony of three or more people must be considered polygamy.
Indeed, Brazil's decision to recognize a three-person civil union conveys a disrespect for Christianity and the traditional family.
Sadly, an ecclesiastical stigma now pervades Brazil, despite the fact that Brazil -- which has more Roman Catholic Christians than any other country in the world -- had been viewed by many theologians as one of the most religious countries in all of Latin America.
By recognizing three-person civil unions, Brazil has lost much of the moral and spiritual respect it once commanded as a leading Christian nation. And for that degrading plight, Brazil has no one to blame but itself.
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