We’re in the fast lane to polygamy

Macleans ^ | 9 April 2009 | Mark Steyn

[vetvetdoug]

Polygamy? Damn, just one was enough.

[HangnJudge]

The marriage contract is fundamentally about
supporting those who continue the species

Or

MRI scan of coitus


Begets

[Habibi]

What sort of lunatics would want more than one woman?

Oh. Never mind.

[DoingTheFrenchMistake]

I’m all for it, the government has no business governing how free people living in a free society cohabitate.

[Steel Wolf]

Polygamy is a normal state of affairs, if you look at most society out of most of history.

Of course, poor treatment of women, ignorance, repression, and superstition are normal states of affairs, as well. Once you start untethering from the core values of Western civilization, you'll simply revert back to earlier forms of civilization. Worship of the Earth as a deity, living as pagans, etc, etc.

I'm not particularly religious, but I know how our ancestors lived without the civilizing force of religion to guide them. And I have to say, as an alternative to Western civilization, it's not all that great.

[George Smiley]

Oscar Wilde famously quipped that “Bigamy is the condition of having one spouse too many. Monogamy is the same.”

[2ndDivisionVet]

Some say polygamy is a nightmare that looks like a dream ... or is it the other way around?

[Obamageddon]

The thought of the Gang Naggings alone is enough to paralyze with dread!

[HangnJudge]

The thought of the Gang Naggings alone
is enough to paralyze with dread!

Sounds like my office at work
13:3 ratio and the Men are Not Winning

Although it seems to work better that way
for some reason...

[OpeEdMunkey]

Once the definition of Marriage as One Man / One Woman is breached there is no logical argument against other nontraditional unions

Gotta be honest. I can justify polygamy to myself a lot more than I can gay marriage. At least the parts fit together properly.

The primary reason though that polygamy will gain no traction has nothing to do with morals or anything so remotely noble.

It's that no one has figured out how to legally divide the assets when the husband and one of the wives decide to divorce.

[HangnJudge]

At least the parts fit together properly.

Just as true of

Polyandry
Plural Marriage
Incestuous Unions

[Texas_shutterbug]

Some liberal libertine types would support polygamy, but many won't including most feminists. And we all know what they say, goes.

Polygamy is dangerous to society. I don't see it happening.

[Signolife]

“I don’t want to have sex with my dog, but do want to claim her as a dependent for tax purposes.”

...And may your dog have plenty of puppies!

[JLS]

I tend toward the free market myself. I would say it is the governments business to decide what kind of living arrangements it will sanction.

You might say the government should not favor any types of living arrangements, but it does.

[Natural Law]

In this age of bed-em, wed-em, and shed-em we have already established a culture in serial polygamy, the practice of many souses, just one at a time, is accepted by right and left, Catholic and Protestant alike.

[Gnomad]

Marraige has been reduced to a corporate contract between 2 parties already-what logical arguement can there be against adding more members to the corporation?

And incest-what logical reason can you now use to prohibit any 2 adults to enter into the marraige contract? Health reasons? You could make that same losing argument against gay marraige, given the toll gay sex takes on the male anatomy. Nice try though.

The only way I see to preserve the tradition of one man, one woman marraige is to remove the government and societal benefits that come with the contract. That returns it to the only place where it seems to be in any way (and not always) respected and admired-the church. The village may have to be destroyed to save it.

[Alberta's Child]

The biggest beneficiary of a legal system in which "gay marriage" and polygamy are permitted is organized crime.

Just think about it.

It will be damn near impossible to secure valuable testimony in these cases when the co-defendants are all married to each other and subject to spousal immunity.

[HangnJudge]

The only way I see to preserve the tradition of one man, one woman marriage is to remove the government and societal benefits that come with the contract.

http://www.ejfi.org/Civilization/Civilization-4.htm

The Russian Effort To Abolish Marriage

[Jim Noble]

There is no question that, when the right case comes before the USSC, polygamy will be legalized.

Casey, Lawrence, and Romer make that inevitable.

[TheFrog]

Polygamy? Damn, just one was enough.

Polygamy? Damn, just one was is enough.