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Legalizing Plural Marriage: The Next Frontier in Family Law
University Press of New England ^ | February 16, 2016 | Mark Goldfeder

Posted on 02/19/2017 8:00:40 AM PST by C19fan

Offers a legal and historical context for reforming family law and legalizing plural marriage

Polygamous marriages are currently recognized in nearly fifty countries worldwide. Although polygamy is technically illegal in the United States, it is practiced by members of some religious communities and a growing number of other “poly” groups. In the radically changing and increasingly multicultural world in which we live, the time has come to define polygamous marriage and address its legal feasibilities.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: polygamy
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I remember that Traditionalists were mocked by the LGBT community and the MSM that the arguments used to identify a so called Constitutional right to gay marriage can be used to legalize polygamy. The Left no longer needs to keep then mask on too. Hat tip Rod Dreher at American Consrvative.
1 posted on 02/19/2017 8:00:40 AM PST by C19fan
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Gay marriage has made polygamy seem almost tame. I suppose that was the point.


2 posted on 02/19/2017 8:03:05 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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Goldfeder argues not only that polygamy is in keeping with the legislative values and freedoms of the United States

I guess the founder of the GOP did not get that message. The founding planks of the Republican party; “to prohibit … those twin relics of barbarism: polygamy and slavery.”

3 posted on 02/19/2017 8:03:05 AM PST by C19fan
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We won’t be free until people with multiple personalities can marry their other selves!


4 posted on 02/19/2017 8:05:31 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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>>I remember that Traditionalists were mocked by the LGBT community and the MSM that the arguments used to identify a so called Constitutional right to gay marriage can be used to legalize polygamy. <<

I have NEVER seen a reasonable answer to the question of, given the “rationale” of gay “marriage,” why not incest marriages, polygamy/polyandry, etc. Any number of 2:n people of any sex/gender is allowed under the rules for gay “marriage.”

I am surprised it has taken this long.

Marriage as an institution in the USA died after the very first state sanctioned gay “marriage.”


5 posted on 02/19/2017 8:07:28 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Not tired of winning yet!)
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Might as well just go to child marriage (any age), zoonotic marriage (animals), and PIAPS marriage (beasts who look like HRDC).


6 posted on 02/19/2017 8:09:19 AM PST by nickedknack
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mist of us get our just rewards in the next life —— (but a polygamist gets his punishment right here on this earth)


7 posted on 02/19/2017 8:09:54 AM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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The Left shrieked "consented adults!" for over a decade about gay marriage.

If 'one man, one woman," could be changed to 'any two people,' I don't see why the number is set in stone either. It is, after all, consenting adults.

8 posted on 02/19/2017 8:10:39 AM PST by Trump20162020
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Having multiple wives would also mean having multiple mothers-in-law.These people are clearly insane.


9 posted on 02/19/2017 8:12:53 AM PST by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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Sharia law is next


10 posted on 02/19/2017 8:13:44 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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What’s the end game here? That the whole world - young, old; mankind, beast - engage in 24/7 orgy?


11 posted on 02/19/2017 8:14:09 AM PST by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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muslims will be so happy...


12 posted on 02/19/2017 8:14:19 AM PST by null and void (Trump's critics have evolved from expecting Trump to be Hitler to preferring it.)
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To: Farmer Dean

...and having multiple wives would also mean having multiple wives - which is even MORE insane.


13 posted on 02/19/2017 8:15:04 AM PST by fhayek
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To: Rurudyne

The divorce trials will be tricky


14 posted on 02/19/2017 8:16:54 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: freedumb2003

The government should never have been involved in marriage, which is a religious right, in the first place.

For years it wasn’t. Then they got the bright idea that they could increase control if they did


15 posted on 02/19/2017 8:18:48 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: fhayek

I see your point!


16 posted on 02/19/2017 8:24:29 AM PST by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: C19fan

Secular marriage no longer has any meaning. You cannot quantify or qualify love.

Marriage is and always was about establishing a family unit to raise children. Nothing more, nothing less.


17 posted on 02/19/2017 8:24:33 AM PST by Skywise
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In Australia they are already arguing for group marriage, where two bisexual men can marry two bisexual woman.

It’s coming here, a total destruction of the nuclear family, all caused by Anthony Kennedy and the four other insane evil liberal justices on the ‘supreme’ court.


18 posted on 02/19/2017 8:25:52 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus
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To: MichaelCorleone

Once the infidels have completely hit rock bottom it will be easier to control them or....

S & G or Islam? Which comes first?

The devil got an upper hand when Clinton/Obama got in.


19 posted on 02/19/2017 8:27:02 AM PST by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.)
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Society and individuals can either make up their own rules or follow God’s commandments.

Choice is either 60 to 100 years now or life with God for eternity.

When Jesus came, he elevated matrimony to the same status it had originally possessed between Adam and Eve—the status of a sacrament. Thus, any valid marriage between two baptized people is a sacramental marriage and, once consummated, cannot be dissolved. Jesus, therefore, taught that if anyone so married divorces and remarries, that person is living in perpetual adultery, a state of mortal sin.

He said, “Every one who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery” (Luke 16:18; cf. Mark 10:11–12).

God’s Peace be with you.


20 posted on 02/19/2017 8:27:18 AM PST by ADSUM
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