Posted on 04/17/2009 11:17:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Looks like a historic legal battle is shaping up over polygamy, the outcome of which will surely be determined by the Supreme Court of Canada.
I understand why, for political reasons, the government feels compelled to fight polygamy tooth and nail, but I suspect the government will lose. The polygamists have what seems to be an unassailable constitutional position. If polygamy is an expression of their religion, and if the participants are all consenting adults, then I don't see how the state can say no.
Note the words "consenting" and "adults". No court would allow you to take a child bride, commit sexual assault or practise kidnapping simply because you say your religion allows you to do so. But a three-way marriage between consenting grown-ups? That's different. Sure, it strikes many people as a weird arrangement, but so did gay marriage -- which is now legal. Again, it's about consenting adults. A marriage between, say, a 20-year-old man and an 80-year-old woman would strike me as weirder and even more unappealing than a marriage involving one man and two wives, but that's not sufficient grounds to make such marriages illegal.
The government is going to argue that polygamous marriages violate Canadian values such as equality of the sexes. But go into some religious communities right here in Canada and you'll find traditional marriages (one man, one woman) that do not uphold what secularists would consider sexual equality.
I'm not championing polygamous marriages. I'm just saying that in a free society, especially a constitutional democracy, it's probably impossible to prohibit them.
Well with aCommunist President what could you expect?
Yup. We couldn’t keep Celine Dion out.
Very simple. No religious laws come before state laws. But if this happens the sharia loving Muslims will just love it.
Just wait until our women start demanding a harem of husbands, it'll stop then.
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Any man who would want more than one wife is COMPLETELY NUTS.
Even having one is pushing the insanity scale.
Sign me up today!!!!!!
Not only will I get a HUGE variety of lovin' but welfare will pay for ALL of it. I got it made!!!!
Things really are very simple at times.
We have had polygamy before. Certainly the Indians had it, and the Mormons. Some offshoots of the Mormons still do.
Find out how to invest in orphanages for the “lost boys” while the old goats monopolize the nubile young ladies, and you can make a mint.
In Utah, most women marry young. Brigham Young.
In the 60s the Rolling Stones couldn’t sing “Lets Spend The Night Together†on the Ed Sullivan Show because it suggested premarital sex. Now in Canada we have gay marriage which has opened the door for polygamy and god knows whet else. Society is becoming more liberal, godless and hedonistic. What’s gonna stop it? I don’t know but if people keep watching liberal TV it will rot their minds into submission.
I've thought about it...not like girls kissing girls and stuff but actually having several real wives...
I could see it in old days with agrarian culture and communities far stretched and if there were plenty of women for men. But if not then the poorer men get scraps and man, the women would sure have to get along...which is a tough sell. There is a reason polygamy is less common in more materially advanced cultures but we still practice financial culling of most suitable mates. not many rich men with ugly wives
That's one of the advantages of being a simple minded country boy, all complexities are disregarded.
If I had that much lovin’ I would have to get welfare because I wouldn’t physically be able to work. Lovin’ is like drinking whiskey - too little or to much is not good. It has to be just right.—JM
FYI - As a married man with 3 adult daughters, they do have a way of all going on their monthly cycle at the same time. You are going to need a safe room, preferably underground.
Kompleckities?
“Kompleckities?” That too.
LOL
A fat cats life, all on welfare, just screwin, eatin, and pickin up green stamps. Thats the life for me!( sarc.)
And as to seeking shelter form the combined cyclic terror of synchronized female cycles, all I have to do is get some help from the Muslims who will show me how to wip and cow women, and call it peace. I got it made!
I love my wife more than my very life. But a man would have to be a fool to want more than one wife and vice versa.
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