[Halfmanhalfamazing]

Typically the NY Times falls to the left of this debate.

If we can change one rule(one man, one woman) we can certainly change the other rule.(two people)

[Borges]

I saw a preview of this at a movie theater. It looks bad.

[COEXERJ145]

Why any man would want to be married to more than one woman is beyond my comprehension.

[Rutles4Ever]

It's the conga line that never ends!

[TheSuaveOne]

I'm still waiting for a good argument against plural marriages as long as it is between consenting adults...la

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

It can be read here without logging in to the NY Slimes.

[xtargeter]

Umm, OK. So I have to deal with multiple mother-in-laws? That'd take a stronger man than me.

[Thrusher]

Incrementalism.

[FormerLib]

Yeah, and then they'll start working on allowing close relatives to marry and who knows what next, across species lines perhaps?

[gondramB]

First, Big Love is a really entertaining series - you don't have to like polygamy to enjoy the series anymore than you have approve of the mafia to like the Sopranos.


Second, the issues are related.

In last Sunday's episode the elder Preacher who is the head of the "bad" polygamists gave an interview where he said something like, in light of the recent supreme court ruling recognizing the privacy rights of homosexuals it would appropriate to recognize our privacy rights.

Of course, by the time the media got through with it the headline was "Polygamists are just like gays." :)

[LurkedLongEnough]

I don't buy any TV anymore, but lots of people are still addicted and this gives me concern.

Some thoughts on pushing people to consider polygamy legitimate: Islamic appeasement? Gay lifestyles? Increase the US birthrate? Hollywood sensationalism? Communism? Aging hippies?

Personally, I think it's the aging hippy effect. Someone wanna write "The Hippy Mystique" with me? Given the way the world is turning, would surely be a bestseller.

[Jibaholic]

The argument that gay marriage does not lead to polygamy is absurd. Every argument put forth on behalf of gay marriage (equality etc...) also applies to polygamy and incest. If you support gay marriage, you are logically and morally bound to support polygamy.

All relationships between consenting adults are deserving of marriage
Gay relationships are relationships between consenting adults
Therefore, gay relationships are deserving of marriage

All C is D
G is C
G is D

Substitute polygamy and incest for gay relationships and the logic still applies.

[blueminnesota]

The only women who would be happy with polygamy are the ones who don't want very much attention from their husbands, the perpetual headache ones.

[YOUGOTIT]

There is no place in history that says marriage is between people other than men and women so that is not the question. The question is: When did marriage between a man and one woman become law? Or I guess the question should be: What country or empire stated a two person (man woman) household was legal and a household with more that one woman was not legal? But in todays environment marriage is not something that is required for living together so more that one woman in the household should not be a problem unless the legal question comes up.

[goldstategop]

Let me put it this way: there is no biblical sanction for gay marriage while the Bible sees nothing wrong with polygamy. Just look at the lives of the patriarchs and the kings of Israel.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[Nonstatist]

And if the specter of legalized polygamy is the best argument against gay marriage, ..

Its actually an excellent argument. Gay marriage looks less like "special" love between 2 people and more like a part of the subversion package.

I hope the gay lobby overplays their hand and starts pimping polygamy. The more twisted, the merrier for the sane ones among us.

[MichiganConservative]

I've seen Big Love. I don't know why anyone would want more than one wife. One seems bad enough.

[napscoordinator]

This does not bother me near as much as gay marriage. I never gave it much thought except for Utah jokes which are abundant through all walks of life. I guess because polygamy has always been presented to me in a humerous way, I don't care one way or another about it. I mean who really is going to do this. I bet the percentage would be extremely small. I don't see this being mainstream. This one I will not get all upset about like the gay marriage situation. I don't think that is left thinking, more not caring thinking. Of all things we conservatives have to worry about polygomy was not even on my radar screen this year. It's all about abolishing gay marriage for me.

[eleni121]

Tha Apostle Paul has the last word on polygamy in all its sordid ramifications:

1 Corinthians chapter 7 (NLT)

1 Now about the questions you asked in your letter.
Yes, it is good to live a celibate life. 2 But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband. 3 The husband should not deprive his wife of sexual intimacy, which is her right as a married woman, nor should the wife deprive her husband. 4 The wife gives authority over her body to her husband, and the husband also gives authority over his body to his wife. 5 So do not deprive each other of sexual relations.

[Question_Assumptions]

This is why we dropped HBO. I got tired of playing for nutty left-wing propaganda.

[theDentist]

... and we can change the whole "1 Species" rule as well.