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>>would appreciate if moderators would purge any further discussions supporting polygamy. It is immoral, an abomination, a contradiction to the fundamental assumption of equality between men and women, and the certain means to our complete destruction. If we cannot agree on this rudimentary precept, everything thing else here is false.<<

I oppose legalizing plural marriage - government sanctioned marriage is a government incentive and we have no business incenting plural marriage just as we have no business legalizing and thus incenting homosexual marriage.

But.. the bible supports multiple wives. Also, plural marriage doesn't have to be one man and multiple women - it can be be the other way around.

In any case, we need to separate between adults living together voluntarily from forcing underage girls to marry and have sex. One is freedom of choice, even if we don't like it and the other is rape and child abuse.

"...the bible supports multiple wives."

Multiple wives for an embattled Israel, surrounded by hostile barbarian people who sacrificed their children to their deity Malich, thousands of years ago. Consider historic context....

The bible also reads:"you shall know them by their fruit."

Once again, history tells.

What do polygamous societies look like, compared with monogamous societies--past and present? The suggestion that polygamy favors men and women equally is a howler.

'Freedom of choice' is a slippery slope: why is it wrong for a father or mother, out of desperation, or malice, or good intention to sell or barter their offspring as they wish? Are we going to abolish parental oversight? Who decides which mores should apply? You know, 'different strokes for different folks.'

Elsewhere I'm labeled a book-burner. I can guarantee that many more books would burn in their polygamous utopia. And I can guarantee that our libertines would never miss them. Ironic that 'book-burner' is the illiterates' favorite epithet.

The bible NO LONGER sanctions plural marriage if you are a christian. There are several verses - that together - strongly indicate that we were to go back to God's original design - one man and one woman.

Let's just start with one verse - do not deny each other [sex]. Now, I don't know about you - but if you were sharing your wife with five men, would you be getting as much sex as you or the average man would like? I know I wouldn't be getting as much sex as I like if my husband were "servicing" one other woman. How can he not be denying me, if he's in another woman's arms? blech