Warner Bros Discovery Airs TLC TV’s Polygamy Show; An Abomination

A new TV series, called "Polyfamily", is airing on the Warner Bros. Discovery network’s TLC TV, and centers on a "family" of two married couples living together and sharing spouses between them. To make matters worse, the "quad family" is having children without knowing who the father is, while one of the women "comes out" as being "pansexual," and seeking an extra relationship with another woman outside the ‘quad’.

"Alysia & Tyler have been married for 11 years and came into the quad [relationship of two couples] with two school-aged children of their own. Since joining the quad, Alysia gave birth to her third child. Meanwhile, Sean & Taya, married for six years, welcomed her first baby after becoming a quad, and now Taya is about to give birth to her second child. With five kids in the picture, things are bound to get complicated, especially since the biological father of the three younger kids remains unknown. The quad has intentionally chosen not to find out who the father is to avoid jealousy and remain committed and equal parents -- which they discover is much easier in theory than in practice." (WBD .com)

Further reports indicate that one of the characters, Taya, is seeking a sexual relationship with another woman:

"Speaking in her confessional, [Taya] says: 'So I consider myself pansexual and Alicia and I have fun together flirting back and forth, but she's straight. The way that our dynamic is and her sexuality, it's just doesn't line up.['] " (Source: www.dailymail .co .uk)

Studies are showing the disaster that comes from sinful family situations, especially the psychological damage to children. One can only imagine what the moral and psychological damage will come from "polyamorous" relationships in which children do not even know their own parents.

Most importantly, this is an attack against the moral order established by God, Who declared that marriage is an indissoluble union between one man and one woman.

We must oppose this abomination in America and keep polygamy, "polyamory", and "pansexuality" from being socially accepted.

Please sign our petition, demanding that "Polyfamily" be immediately cancelled. Add your name to the petition to Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav NOW!

When I posted that I was looking at the negative side of the equation, as you probably were too.

Then it occurred to me that if a man could have a happy life and happy family with two or more wives he also would be getting what he deserved.

He would have to be one incredible guy in multiple different ways to the point of being a mythical creature ... but the axiom would still hold true in the opposite. lol

Polygamy is not a perversion. It is a cultural practice that arose in many societies, including the ancient Hebrews. Many of the patriarchs in the Old Testament took more than one wife. This was licit.

At a certain stage of development, polygamy is a healthy adaptation. The classic case would be cultures characterized by constant raiding, feuding and low level warfare. In many times and places, this produced very high mortality among young men, on a sustained, chronic basis as opposed to infrequent, episodic imbalances arising from particularly bloody wars. (The loss of a generation of young men in a war causes a different set of problems, though normally of a temporary nature.)

If a significant and chronic gender imbalance is the norm, what is to be done with all the young widows, many with children, as well as the never-married young women living in small villages in which many of the young men have been killed?

Polygamy provided an honorable place in society for these young women. It also kept them in the childbearing cohort, which was essential for the survival of small groups.

Polygamy, however, becomes maladaptive when the constant warfare recedes and the gender ratio stabilizes. Hypergamy is one negative consequence; abusive and predatory behavior by the aggressive alpha males is another. A large percentage of the young men will be shut out of the marriage market. Islam sought to solve this through jihad, which killed off huge numbers of surplus men, and also gave sanction to the stealing of women from the victims of conquest. And mass sex slavery. Islam is largely a reaction to a fundamentally maladaptive sexual culture.

On a less dramatic scale, the “lost boys” problem in the surviving polygamous Morman sects is another clear example. Older high status men grab multiple wives, picking the most desirable young women. Or they marry them off to favored sons. The young men who don’t make the cut are driven from the community, the Mormons having given up on raiding wagon trains to steal women.

Polygamy is maladaptive in modern societies. But the rejection of polygamy is a principled cultural response designed to give everyone a fair chance at marriage, family, and everything that flows from that.

A perversion is a misdirection of a natural instinct. The choice between polygamy and monogamy is not hard wired. It’s a matter of cultural adaptation to the conditions that exist.

You’re really reaching.

Firstly, there wouldn’t be a very big chance of inbreeding just because some minuscule percentage of people practiced polygamy. Then the odds would really taper off to a near statistical null that someone would intermarry with the genetically compromised offspring of a polygamous marriage.

On the other hand there are already a lot of people with genetic abnormalities in society who had no link to polygamous marriages so worrying about those who did is just ridiculous.

But if you insist I’ll entertain more analysis of the joke I made in post #9.

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