Libertarian ping! To be added or removed from my ping list freepmail me or post a message here.A long time ago....no one would ever give this crap the time of day.
My ideal marriage: two wives, one butter churn, three French hens.
How dare anyone criticize! It's a marriage to me!
Societies with large numbers of unattached males also tend toward higher amounts of violence and discord. Polygamy skews male choice toward younger and younger wives as the amount of women get scarce - witness Mohammed marrying that 9-year-old, for instance - and by definition, many men will be left unwed, childless, and without families. Go ahead and tell me that's a good thing for society. For women, the argument might be made that they can choose the most powerful and affluent men to bond with, but in reality, it appears that societies which allow polygamy have far fewer rights for women than monogamous societies; maybe it has something to do with getting snatched up by men at very young ages.
In any case, I already see how well things are among children in my classroom after society has been experimenting with family structure. Those with mother-father households tend to do well; those with some kind of mix tend to be a little messed up; those without a father at all are often basket cases. Not all, of course; there are exceptions.
I look at this article as just another slip down the slope of social decay. After polygamy, the next step will be allowing sex between teenagers and adults. The step after that is really too awful to contemplate.
Can anyone tell me the advantages of polygamy over: a) the "serial" polygamy of one spouse at a time, with no legal limit on the number one may marry in a lifetime; and b) non-marital domestic relationships of every sort?
As it is, people are "living together," and breaking up and rearranging with others, all the time. People are marrying and divorcing and remarrying. What exactly would attract anyone to concurrent marriages instead of the existing options?
While we're at it, let us contemplate what the legal relationship would be between/among multiple wives, and between/among multiple husbands. How would the law define the "other" pair/s in a union of three or more? What would be the rights and responsibilities they had with respect to each other?
Somehow I don't think the law would adjust to that very readily.
This is a veiled hit piece on Mitt Romney. Mormonism in many people's minds is associated with polygamy, even though Mormons banned the practice many years ago.
There should be no reason why a male goat, horse, or other barnyard friend cannot marry a woman. If the barnyard friend makes the first move on the woman and she consents, you have the consent that is necessary. Once the rules have changed from one man and one woman, anything should go.
It is problematical with a female barnyard friend. How can a male human prove that the animal gave consent?
I don't know how to evaluate a homesexual male human getting together with a homosexual barnyard friend. And transgendered barnyard friends really loses me.
Libertarian ping! To be added or removed from my ping list freepmail me or post a message here.Under the laws passed by Congress, the condition for the admission of Utah into the Union was that they abandon polygamy. In fact, under the Enabling Act, they could be thrown out of the Union if they renege. Same goes for Arizona. And New Mexico. Their state constitutions explicitly say that they cannot reinstitute polygamy without an act of Congress.
(So much for those who claim that marriage issues are not national, federal issues...)
Why don't I care about this? Why doesn't it matter to me?
I have never understood why bigamy is a crime. One guy in the ghetto make a mess of kids with a handful of women, no crime. A Mormon wants to do the same thing, except actually take care of all of them.....crime?
In her battle to legalize polygamy, the only thing Valerie hasn't revealed is her last name.
Gen 2:18-24 Then the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him." Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him. So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. The LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man." For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.
*Wife* Singular. God created ONE woman for Adam, not a harem.
I Cor 7:2 But because of immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband.
Eph 5:31 & 33 FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND SHALL BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH. Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband.
I Tim 3:2 An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
I Tim 3:12 Deacons must be husbands of only one wife, and good managers of their children and their own households.
Titus 1:6 ...namely, if any man is above reproach, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, not accused of dissipation or rebellion.
God is pretty clear that a husband is to have one wife especially leaders in the church.
The true crime is what happens to the sons of these "marriages". They are very early on viewed as potential rivals for girls, even by thier own fathers. The are sunned and out cast at an early age. I've heard of some fathers, telling thier sons they will never have a wife, 'helping' them to turn gay.
Rumors, of course. But what does happen to the 'excess' males? That is the real question.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus