Posted on 11/21/2006 1:36:33 PM PST by presidio9
In her battle to legalize polygamy, the only thing Valerie hasn't revealed is her last name. The mother of eight has been on national TV; her photo along with that of her two "sister-wives" has graced the front cover of a glossy magazine dedicated to "today's plural marriages."
She has been prodded about her sex life: "He rotates. It's easy -- just one, two, three." Quizzed about her decision to share a husband with two other women: "You really have a good frame of reference when you marry a man who already has two wives." Interrogated about what it's like to live in a house with 21 children: "Remodeling a kitchen, that's no small feat with three wives and a husband involved."
All the while, the petite brunette with a smile as bright as Utah's sky has insisted that she's just like you and me: "I'm a soccer mom. My kids are in music lessons. They go to public school. I'm not under anyone's control."
Valerie and others among the estimated 40,000 men, women and children in polygamous communities are part of a new movement to decriminalize bigamy. Consciously taking tactics from the gay-rights movement, polygamists have reframed their struggle, choosing in interviews to de-emphasize their religious beliefs and focus on their desire to live "in freedom," according to Anne Wilde, director of community relations for Principle Voices, a pro-polygamy group based in Salt Lake.
In recent months, polygamy activists have held rallies, appeared on nationally televised news shows and lobbied legislators. Before the Nov. 7 elections, one pro-polygamy group issued a six-page analysis of all Utah's state and local candidates and their views on polygamy. "We can make a difference," the
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Couldn't agree more.
Actually, most polygamists that have a valid family - not on welfare, kids in school, between consenting ADULTS (not children) tend to be very VERY conservative.
Orthodox almost in their faith.
Imagine if everyone was treated as an individual under the law. Then there would be no tax issues or insurance issues or divorce issues to burden the rest of society. The government should get the heck out of the marriage business. It's a private, and for many people religious matter, that the government has no business regulating, licensing, recognizing, etc.
You gotta be kidding.
No problem. I've never heard of polygamy causing any problems for anyone else. Legalizing polygamy will offer no protection to the likes of Warren Jeffs and his followers, since legalizing polygamy does not constitute legalizing rape of minors.
Because by "normalizing" a psychological problem (homosexuality), you open a pandoras box of proselytizying, indoctrination and experimentation of young, confused, not ready for sexuality minds.
"It is almost always seems to be about having a steady supply of younger, warmer pockets to keep "junior" warm in, on an otherwise cold, headachy night."
Bingo. That is ALL it is about. Where there is polygamy, generally there is pedophelia.
Even if not, though, In a polygamous society, the rich guys get all the chicks. Only about half the men can take a maximum of 2 wives. That leaves little girls and males for the rest. Is that a society we want?
Oh your FReeper name just made me LOL hard!
Good post, too. Read here on FR about how Muslims in Russia are having at least 10 kids a piece, let's not let that be compounded x4 over here!
Sharia law is available.
No that does not follow.
Poligamy shuts some many men out of the gene pool:
Polygamy allows successful men to out breed failures, essentially a complete inversion of the welfare state status quo.
Starting back in 1995 when I ran for office I was saying exactly this. And here we are.
I think this thread is going to be the classical Social/Christian Conservatism vs. Libertarian Conservatism debate - so I'll give my two cents - it's time the two factions of conservatism found common ground, and the common ground is this; we all should oppose bad law! Back to Burkean Conservatism in other words!
In this case, I believe legalising polygamy would be bad law.
Yes, but you know a thousand other things will crop up in the course of any societal "experiment" in polygamy.
Besides, as many have pointed out on this thread, you'd have to be a real doofus in the first place to want more than one spouse!
Just find a woman you don't like and buy her a house!
Any society where most women are in polygamous marriages necessarily ends up with a large surplus of males. Unless they're killed as infants or in utero, or they're killed in warfare as teenagers or young adults, or there's a non-polygamous society available outside to absorb them, they become a socially corrosive force.
For example, they might end up flying airplanes into tall buildings.
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