[RHINO369]

"That polygamy is certainly no worse morally than homosexual marriage."

Its definitely worse for society though.If two men wanna go fag off that leaves two women out there for the rest of us men. If one guy has 6 wives there are 5 guys who cannot possibly get a woman. When a society has alot of guys who have no possibility of ever getting a woman, they become violent. If polygamy ever became widespread in America the crime rate would sky rocket, and eventually a mob of 18-25 year old men would overthrow the government and redistribute the women.

There's a reason why polygamist towns push young men out of their society.

[Nonstatist]

If polygamy ever became widespread in America the crime rate would sky rocket

And what if feminists in control of legislatures enact laws that discourage marriage, such as no-fault divorce and pro-fem custody law ? Marriage rates are dropping and theres a de-coupling of child-raising and marriage, but I guess as long as men can still "hook-up", the society won't devolve? Maybe , maybe not.

[Young Scholar]

If one guy has 6 wives there are 5 guys who cannot possibly get a woman.

Now there's an interesting line of reasoning... I doubt you'll ses a New York Times editorial arguing that one.

[Centurion2000]

No, the real problem with polygamy would be this. In this country a blue collar worker used to be able to completely provide for his family on one full time paycheck and live reasonably well.

Now it takes TWO full time paychecks to live reasonably well due to taxation.

How would people like it if it wound up taking 3 or 4 full time paychecks to live reasonably well? You can bet the government would crank up the tax rates if this went legal.

[DelphiUser]

>>Its definitely worse for society though.

Not to mention the costs for Welfare, insurance, and schools...

[LexBaird]

If one guy has 6 wives there are 5 guys who cannot possibly get a woman.

You assume marital fidelity. There are plenty of guys out there with 6 women. Some married them, sequentially. Some never bothered to marry them.

The truth is, we have polygamy right now. We just call it divorce and remarriage.