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Will Schick: Polygamy no crazier than monogamy
The Galesburg Register-Mail ^ | February 21, 2015 | Will Schick

Posted on 02/26/2015 11:07:16 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: henkster

be careful not to get your d^^^ caught in your grille


41 posted on 02/26/2015 12:13:49 PM PST by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..).)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There might be something to this. I’m sure my senior wife would appreciate a 17 year old Thai girl around the house to help out.


42 posted on 02/26/2015 12:15:36 PM PST by Bayan
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So a tv show tells us how people are in reality?

Really?

That should end things right there.


43 posted on 02/26/2015 12:17:51 PM PST by bajabaja (Too ugly to be scanned at the airports.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Polygamy seems to be one of those rare issues that liberals and conservatives agree on — they both disapprove, but for different reasons.”

Liberals are against it until they are for it.


44 posted on 02/26/2015 12:19:23 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Paladin2

You mean the kicker?


45 posted on 02/26/2015 12:19:45 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: MeganC

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hKWmFWRVLlU


46 posted on 02/26/2015 12:30:12 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Bigamy is one wife too many, Monogomany is the same thing.”
-Oscar Wilde


47 posted on 02/26/2015 12:36:09 PM PST by Organic Panic
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Conservatives will dig up some obscure Biblical verse that seems to condemn polygamy,

What is so obscure about "no man can serve two masters"

48 posted on 02/26/2015 12:43:16 PM PST by NeoCaveman (DC, it's Versailles on the Potomac but without the food and culture)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“What is the legal difference between a ban on same sex marriage being unconstitutional, but a ban on polygamy being constitutional?"

What is the legal difference between pretending that same sex "marriage" is real and pretending that a marriage between a man and a grapefruit is real? As far as I'm concerned, if the man consents and the citrus raises no objection, it's just as real as a game of make-believe pretending to have a connection to the most important institution in western culture.

49 posted on 02/26/2015 12:48:29 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“But the question of whether polygamy should be illegal in the United States is its own issue, and ought to be considered on its merits.”

Homo marriage, polygamy, and various other attempts to fabricate alternatives to one man/one woman have no merit, nor do those who find those acceptable. The liberaltarian claptrap ignores that one of the purposes of government is to preserve civilization, not barbarism.


50 posted on 02/26/2015 1:03:10 PM PST by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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To: Paladin2

Funny! I’m in the ‘no go’ zone! :-P


51 posted on 02/26/2015 1:12:06 PM PST by MeganC (You can ignore reality, but reality won't ignore you.)
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To: Dutchboy88
"When logic becomes the driver for “law”, then Schick will be right. We are on our way there. However, law has since the beginning of the US, been based on morality..."

Great point!

52 posted on 02/26/2015 1:13:45 PM PST by folkquest (I plan on being cranky for the next 4 years. Hope to crack a political smile at the midterms!)
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To: Iron Munro

A guy comes home drunk carrying a sheep under his arm.
He fumbles with the lock, stumbles in and slams the door.
He loudly climbs the stairs, waking his wife and turns on the bedroom light.
“Honey,” he slurs, “this is the cow I sleep with when you’re not in the mood.”
“You stupid drunk,” she answers angrily, “that’s not a cow! That’s a sheep!”
“S’cuse me...” he replies, “I was talking to the sheep.”


53 posted on 02/26/2015 1:30:58 PM PST by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Does what? The Russian experiment of the late 1930s and early 1940s revealed the damage caused to society and individuals by the government’s attempts to destroy the marriage and family institution. Even though it went contrary to the Communist ideology, the Soviet Union felt it had not other option except to start supporting the traditional marriage and nuclear family.


54 posted on 02/26/2015 1:40:46 PM PST by Dante3
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To: ansel12

Forbidding it? I”m not in the legislature. I have no more power over polygamy than I do over gay marriage. Or do you think I”m here preparing the ground for group marriage, polygamy and 70s style swinging? Lol


55 posted on 02/26/2015 3:29:07 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Post 14 was a simple enough post, there was nothing in there that implied that you need to explain that you aren’t an elected official and in the legislature, or about any powers you might have.

Your post was totally evasive in responding to the simple observation in post 14.

Here it is in it’s entirety. “Your early posts on the topic and your persistence in posting on it, indicate that polygamy is not something that you strongly oppose.
Am I correct in thinking that forbidding polygamy is not a major goal to you?”


56 posted on 02/26/2015 3:36:24 PM PST by ansel12 (Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
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To: ansel12

Why should it be something I’m for or against forbidding? Polygamy, insofar as I know, is already illegal within the United States, or did you hear something while I was out today? And since “gay marriage” is now the law of the land, how will anyone stop polygamy or relative marriage? On what basis? Welcome to Obamaland.


57 posted on 02/26/2015 8:23:30 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It isn’t a slippery slope because homosexuals are further down the slope than polygamists IMO.


58 posted on 02/27/2015 5:37:46 AM PST by wolfman23601
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