Harems Accepted in the West

DanielPipes.org ^ | March 23, 2007 | Daniel Pipes

[hanfei]

Unsurprising, still bad.

[the invisib1e hand]

Nina Bernstein writes in "In Secret, Polygamy Follows Africans to N.Y.".

It certainly followed one man and spawned Barack Obama.

We read on the thread about Exorcism that God sometimes forces the devil to tell the truth. Apparently so

[arderkrag]

As long as the women consent to the marriages, no harm, no foul. It should only be illegal when the women involved are forced.

[kittymyrib]

Heard a report that the LDS cult busted in TX, which sprang from the original in Utah and Arizona, gets around the law against polygamy by having a man only legally marry one woman, but “spiritually” marry the others.

Incidentally, all the “spiritual” wives can qualify for welfare as single parents then, and many are collecting welfare in Utah and Arizona, a bonus for the sires. Texas is less generous, so I don’t know if they have collected welfare here.

[Hamilcar_Barca]

My wife would never let me have a harem.

[arderkrag]

Only whites? Well, I do declare! Nice of you to lay out these racial law ideals for us. Thanks for making your fellow conservatives look like racist jerks.

[utherdoul]

long as there are plenty of Asian honies I’m all set to go. Throw a few latinos in there and I’ll be gold.

[OeOeO]

How about if they all go on the public dole?

[OeOeO]

Barney Frank I’m sure is outraged somewhere over your statement

[hanfei]

Barney Frank is a Communist.

[Figment]

Some men have one wife in the United States and others abroad.

Like Hussein Obamas daddy?

[arderkrag]

Well, considering I’m for ending welfare entirely, that’s not really an issue with me.

[mnehring]

Thanks for making your fellow conservatives

She is no Conservative. Conservatives look at the individual, they don't go putting people in boxes based on some stereotype. Nope, leftist/racist troll. Probably from Rev Wright's church.

[Cacique]

bookmarked

[ikka]

Immigration to New York and other American cities has soared from places where polygamy is lawful and widespread, especially from West African countries like Mali, where demographic surveys show that 43 percent of women are in polygamous marriages.

I guess my question would be "Why is this occurring?" We have nothing in common with these Africans, as opposed to American blacks who we share a common language, history, and culture with. Why let them into the country at all?

[Eric Blair 2084]

Much like Marxism, having 7 wives sounds good in theory, but it doesn’t work in the real world...

Seems like a great idea until you have 7 angry women nagging you about stuff instead of just one.

[ConservativeMind]

I’m against such arrangements, but it’s a better situation than having people sleep around, fathering children out of wedlock, with multiple women.

Is there a way we can ban those people from the US?

[Merta]

I don’t mind polygamy as long as the women are of legal and proper age and are not forced to join. There should also be a limit on how many wifes you can have.

The problem with much modern polygamy is that it is a cult of incest, rape, usually involving under-age girls to satisfy some power struggle that the man is having. It can be very sick(Even if he might take a skeptical view of any believing Christian, Kraukauer’s Under The Banner of Heaven is a revealing look at modern polygamy) and demoralizing. The funny thing about polygamy is that its history parallels that of homosexual marriage except back then a Massachusetts supreme court didn’t make it legal.