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Challenging monogamy (Polyamorists fall in love with all they couple with)
Denver Post ^ | Jan 22 05 | Douglas Brown

Posted on 01/23/2005 8:03:29 PM PST by churchillbuff

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To: sheik yerbouty
I'm just curious about one thing. When did the Bible outlaw polygamy?

Right next to the bit that outlaws slavery.

;-)_~~

21 posted on 01/23/2005 8:54:40 PM PST by AdamSelene235 (Truth has become so rare and precious she is always attended to by a bodyguard of lies.)
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To: MisterRepublican

Maybe not even them! :)


22 posted on 01/23/2005 8:56:21 PM PST by cvq3842
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To: churchillbuff

Poly-pathetic.


23 posted on 01/23/2005 9:00:48 PM PST by skr (Tagline pending)
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To: churchillbuff

Trask, 40, describes herself as "spiritual." Pagan runes, half-moons, leaping dolphins, Hindu gods and other artifacts from spirituality's vast archipelago decorate her house and her body."

My guess is, no matter how satisfied this woman is trying to portray herself, that she is desperately searching for something to truly satisfy her.

She is not going to find it in new age, Hindu philosophy, paganism or many different men's and women's beds no matter how much she looks.


24 posted on 01/23/2005 9:05:58 PM PST by I still care (America is not the problem - it is the solution..)
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To: sheik yerbouty

God never intended polygamy. "For this reason, a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh" (Genesis 2:24). Polygamy was never condoned by God, even though it was practiced in the Old Testament, as were many acts that were repulsive to God. The polygamous marriages that you see in the OT were examples of jealousy and strife, for us not to follow in those footsteps (Rachel, Leah, and Jacob). Just because God chose to not immediately destroy those who perverted His Word doesn't mean that he approved of their behavior. If you change the definition of marriage, you open up a whole new bag of worms. Gay marriage, polygamy, beastiality...well, some might argue that it's not unacceptable to love a horse.


25 posted on 01/23/2005 9:07:42 PM PST by greeneyes23
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To: formercalifornian

"David Trask, who sports long, floppy bangs, plays a lot of "role-playing" games, and competes as a figure skater, describes himself as polyamorous."

I dunno, he sounds a little messed up to me.


26 posted on 01/23/2005 9:21:30 PM PST by Theresawithanh (2005! My resolution: FReep even MORE this year!!!)
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To: Theresawithanh

Sadly I have a friend who practices this, and I was wondering why his fiance decided to pack them up and move to boulder.


27 posted on 01/23/2005 9:37:47 PM PST by Katana16j
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To: churchillbuff
Shouldn't employers provide health benefits for all of these polyamorists' partners?

With a lifestyle like that, they sure are going to need it.

28 posted on 01/23/2005 9:50:31 PM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: churchillbuff
"The problem, of course (with polyamory), is jealousy, and it's a huge problem,"

Why can't we all just get along?

29 posted on 01/23/2005 9:53:59 PM PST by Jeff Gordon (Now is the time for all wise men to gloat. FOUR MORE YEARS,)
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To: Txsleuth
Either the world has gone mad, OR it is trying to drive me mad!!!

You're limiting the possibilities artificially, Txsleuth! ... or you're trying to drive the world mad, or ...

...no, we probably don't want to go any further down this particular line of commentary..

Heh heh

30 posted on 01/23/2005 9:54:39 PM PST by IonImplantGuru (PhD, School of Hard Knocks)
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To: Goldwater4ever

If you knew the meaning of the parable of the ten virgins... But, then, one day you will.

Simply incredible.

But for you polywogs out there, Jesus said only a man with one wife could be a leader in church, for how can a man understand the needs of the church if he does not understand the needs of his family.


31 posted on 01/23/2005 9:56:24 PM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Txsleuth
Either the world has gone mad, OR it is trying to drive me mad!!!

Don't fall for the liberal media propaganda. Note the source of this article? A left wing Denver rag. Then check out the people quoted in the article such as:

The United States has remained stuck on monogamy for too long, says Deborah Anapol, a northern California author and relationship expert who helped found Loving More magazine in 1994.

Deborah Anapol is an out-to-carpet-lunch extremist.

It's the old story, if you can convince people that 10% of the U.S. population is gay, as Alfred Kinsey did, then you have Americans wondering about each other's sexuality. Kinsey's 1948 'report' has been thoroughly debunked due to his extremely skewed sampling, his methods, and the fact that he was a closet pervert himself. In fact, with statically objective researching the homosexual U.S. population, it is now believed to be around 1 to 2%. But Kinsey had an agenda, and he did a very good job of popularizing the idea of 1 out of 10 Americans being lurking homosexuals, with the help for decades of our all too willing media.

IOW, use search engines like Google and research a little before you buy into everything you read.:)

32 posted on 01/23/2005 9:58:42 PM PST by xJones
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To: churchillbuff

HA! just swingers stealing a page from the homosexuals.

no longer about no comitment sex, now its LOOOOOOOOOVE.

How can anyone be against LOOOOOOOOOOVE?

The sould be allowed to marry the family dog they LOOOOOOOOOVE.


AND they should be allowev to force government, employers, and insurance compaines to subsidise their LOOOOOOOOOOVE.


33 posted on 01/23/2005 9:58:49 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: dighton
Polyamorists fall in love with all they couple with

Fall in lust perhaps, but love? I fear they never will know it.

34 posted on 01/23/2005 10:06:28 PM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: American in Israel

“Male and female created He them,” and despite my years, I'll never untangle it either.


35 posted on 01/23/2005 10:24:42 PM PST by dighton
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To: MisterRepublican

They all voted for Kerry.

The tone of the article is written as though those who would criticize such relationships are abnormal.


36 posted on 01/23/2005 10:27:21 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: churchillbuff

Here it comes, the polygamy push. Next will be stories about how incestuous relationships are bliss, and how much Jo Bob Smiley loves his dog. A few months later we can expect to hear that there's no reason a person's sex life should end when they die. After that they'll have nothing left to go after but your kids. The final barriers to complete sexual barbarity are falling, so wake up and fight!


37 posted on 01/23/2005 11:36:43 PM PST by thoughtomator (Meet the new Abbas, same as the old Abbas)
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To: MisterRepublican

Meeting of one of the Colorado polyamory groups

38 posted on 01/24/2005 6:28:20 AM PST by beaversmom (The greatness of a man is measured by the fatness of his wife)
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About two years ago, Jim Boegman, 40, an Aurora software designer...

I have a feeling this fellow used to be a neighbor.

39 posted on 01/24/2005 6:30:02 AM PST by beaversmom (The greatness of a man is measured by the fatness of his wife)
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To: onef

ping


40 posted on 01/24/2005 6:41:31 AM PST by beaversmom (The greatness of a man is measured by the fatness of his wife)
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