[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)

[Little Ray]

Or three - one adult and one child.

[Antoninus]

It's all about tearing down the family for the purpose of destroying America.

That's all it is.

[BJungNan]

Why shuld the govment tell me how many wife I can have. If I have only one it make it much more difficult for everyone. With more than one, everyone can share the work in the house and to pay the bill and we all have more time for whoppie!

[hosepipe]

[ Who's Afraid of Polygamy? ]

Not lawyers.. its an increased workload thing..
Polygamy/Polyandry or Homogamy and Heterogamy will make it possible to double the quota of lawyers in this country..

Its all a wicked plan.. funny that most politicians are lawyers ain't it.. It has little to do with morality its lawyers promoting their Union.. Union?.. Yeah you can't be a lawyer unless "they" say you can.. With DUES and everything..

[freespirited]

The biggest losers from polygamy are the poorer men who end up with no wives. Women benefit because polygamy increases their number of marriage prospects — and in traditional societies, marriage is often the only way for a woman to improve her status.

Of course the NYT has assumed that the only thing that matters to a woman is the man's pockets. Which might be the case if all other things are equal among available men, but that's never true.

I have a big problem with this argument. It works for Tierney because he can't see beyond the current generation of women in the show. But ideas like prohibiting polygamy arent just based the present but looking longterm.

Let's say there are 500 males and 500 females in a small town. If the women share a relatively small fraction of the more prosperous males rather than mate with all of them (or almost all of them), over time the population will become progressively more inbred.

Did you learn about the ill effects of inbreeding in high school biology? Well forget all that. A New York times reporter has decided that you are an overwrought conservative.

[SQUID]

Muslims love polygamy. I'm sure they can't wait to outpace the typical American family of 1.5 children. That should be easy enough with one wife let alone 10 to speed things up a bit.

[Chasaway]

Actually, I'm not afraid of polygamy at all.

I'm just afraid of bringing it up with the wife.