[goldstategop]

Why the heck not? What goes on in the bedroom between consenting adults is no one else's business.

[kb2614]

It's a Brave New World!!!

Soma for the masses!!!

[SittinYonder]

The battle over traditional marriage is, in fact, a battle to preserve our civilization from tumbling into the ash heap of history—as many civilizations have gone before

I think this is very true, although I believe you can take many elements of the left's agenda and substitute it for "traditional marriage" and get the same result. So much of what the leftists want leads us to the same conclusion, and I believe if they win one major victory the game is as good as up.

[Tristram Shandy]

Deut. 21:15 "If a man has two wives, one beloved and one hated, and they have children, one may not favor the beloved wife's children over the other wife's children." There's nothing untraditional about polygamy. (The question of why any sane man would inflict this on himself should be reserved for another thread.)

Clearly, as with all issues great and small, the government must be given absolute power to adjudicate.

[tkathy]

Polygamy would be a disaster for any country that chooses to legalize it. Institutionalized abuse. A step back into the stone age.

[Gritty]

(from the article)

Historian J.D. Unwin, writing in his 1934 book, Sex and Culture, surveyed the destruction of 86 different cultures throughout history. He discovered something very shocking: Every society that rejected monogamy in marriage and pre-marital chastity, did not last longer than a generation afterward.

This is a startling statement. It's not only polyamory, Mormons and homosexuals who are being "discriminated against", but Muslims - who are allowed 4 wives at a time (and can divorce them at will). It is they who will next be clamoring for "equal rights" in alliance with the usual sodomites and assorted orgyists who see society in no other terms than a venue for getting sex, obtaining power and flouting libertine lifestyles.

[TMSuchman]

The way I see it we are going the way of the old Roman Empire, they rotted from the inside till they were over run by a stronger outside force.

[fporretto]

I can't imagine what the fuss is about. Polygamy isn't coming; it's already here. Consider these facts:

1. Under current family law, if a man lives with a woman for an extended period of time, a Family Court judge is free to decide that he owes her all the traditional obligations of marriage, most notably alimony and support for her children, even though they never married.
2. That child support is not conditional on him being the provable or admitted bio-father of the child.
3. Men have been adjudged by courts in several states to have forfeited their houses to their unmarried bed partners, on exactly the same logic (or lack thereof) that produced points 1 and 2 above.
4. Despite these things, men, including men who've been savaged by such "palimony" judgments, routinely go looking for new lovers -- without "divorcing" their former mates.

The cases alluded to above exhibit all the legal consequences of marriage and marital dissolution, but without the formalities of divorce. Sure sounds like polygamy to me. Serial bigamy, anyway.

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[Mogollon]

Muslims believe in polygamy too. Wouldn't want to discriminate against the 'religion of peace'.

[ORECON]

My wife’s sister asked me if I would go to the Home Depot with her to get some supplies for a project she was working on while her husband was at work. She and my wife look very much alike. They were standing next to the shopping cart talking while I was on another aisle looking for something. A guy came along and was hitting on them. My wife’s sister said, “Our husband is just around the corner.” The guy got a funny confused look on his face and walked away.

[Lazamataz]

Polygamy and homosexual marriage, however, are not the only looming threats to traditional marriage.

That's darn tootin'!

I want to marry my Sears wet-and-dry vac.

Ain't she a doll?

[Constitution Day]

I cannot fathom what a hassle a marriage with two (or more) women would be.

Just ONE wife is enough, thanks! :)

[Fitzcarraldo]

The liberal social reformers of today are the useful idiots of Islam who would dominate the world by demographics and Sharia law.