[deaconjim]

First we get same sex marriages, then group marriages, and soon we'll have people marrying animals.

[oakcon]

I saw this coming as soon as the gays started pushing for “marriage”. I’m surprised it hasn’t moved faster towards polygamy, especially up here in Canada.

[hsalaw]

Well, look at the source: al-Reuters. This is a “Romney is scary” article. Al-Reuters probably has no complaint whatever about the islamists’ polygamy practices.

[lesser_satan]

I’ve seen real polygamists on TV. The women are usually on the high side of three bills and ugly as hell.

[TChris]

There's no such thing as a "fundamentalist Mormon". There are ex-Mormons and never-been-Mormons. AFAIK, the great majority of the polygamists are in the second category.

Calling these polygamists "Mormons", of any stripe, is no more accurate than someone from Venezuela calling himself "American". It's just not true.

[ml/nj]

Jacob was a polygamist too. It's hardly the same as homosexual "marriage."

ML/NJ

[elizabetty]

How is they can call themselves Mormon when they live their lives against Mormon Doctrine?

They are like Catholics who support abortion.

[Khepera]

Well I have to wonder which is worse. polygamy or homosexual marriage. I think I could tolerate the former before the latter.

[TheBattman]

You are far closer than the slight sarcasm in your post would indicate!

Seriously - There are people out there pushing for “gay marriage”, not because they are gay, but because they know that no rule regarding who (or what) you can marry will be able to stand.

[TheDon]

Santorum Alert!

[Nevadan]

If I were a Muslim with more than one wife or a Muslim who wanted to have more than one wife, I can tell you what states I would consider moving to: The states (Utah and Arizona) where they have done virtually nothing about and are deeply disinterested in enforcing the laws against polygamy. It will be interesting to see what happens in these states in regard to the Muslim population in the future.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

"Many are finding they have an unlikely ally in Hollywood, since the start of "Big Love," HBO's series about a fictional polygamous family."

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Cast from HBO's "Big Love"

[TypeZoNegative]

>>>>>>>It’s like the work Martin Luther King did in relation with African Americans,” he said, holding year-old Ava, one of his eight children, in the living room of his three-story home in Centennial Park, a dry, dusty Arizona town run by polygamists near the Utah border.<<<<

That whirring sound you hear is MLK spinning in his grave.

[metmom]

Matt 19:4-6 "Haven't you read," he replied, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female,' and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh'? So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate."

God's intent from the beginning was that one man married one woman. Any sex outside that relationship is considered adultery. There is nothing in the New Testament nor anything Jesus said that supports marriage to more than one woman at a time.

[Colofornian]

Today, about 40,000 "fundamentalist Mormons" in Utah and nearby states live polygamy illegally.

Who said that men can't get pregnant? This was Joseph Smith's "pregnancy." (And Brigham Young and John Taylor & other LDS prophets & general authorities were this practice's "godparents.")

[JerseyHighlander]

A Republican Representative, I think from California, and also Rick Santorum, were both absolutely thrashed in the media for bringing this up during the last big round of ballot measures to define marriage.

Marriage = one man and one woman.

Marriage = one man and one man.
Marriage = one woman and one woman.
Marriage = one man and two woman.

One word change, and who is to say which word should be changed.
Up until recently in the state of Ohio
Marriage = one man owns one woman
due to an antiquated law.

[elhombrelibre]

Plural marriage is a very bad thing. The young men very often cannot find brides and are often pushed out by the older men. Some of them end up on the streets of Salt Lake City without any skills. In Muslim countries, too, this leads to a lot of social problems as the younger men cannot find wives.

[ColdSteelTalon]

I looked real hard in the Bible and see no verse that restricts a man from having more than one wife.........

Now before you get that look on your face I do not belive that its OK for a man to have more than one wife, The Bible's greatest example were Adam and Eve. And I think its a pattern that we should emulate.

I for one would be absolutey content with just one. :)