Why is polygamy illegal?? Who cares how many wives a person has?
Maybe the men who get left out? Maybe the daughters who are given away as soon as they reach puberty (which can be as young as 10)? How about the women, who lose most if not all of their freedom? Or the young boys, when they reach puberty and are forced out of the community (so that the old geezers get the young “celestial brides”)? Or the kids who never get to know their fathers, who have little time for individual guidance (one guy had 35 kids)—haven’t we seen what that does to families in some areas of our cities already? And we want more of that?
Real Americans care and have cared. In an era when petitions were unheard of (perhaps other than the abolition movement), Americans signed a 28-roll, 7 million signature petition & delivered it to Congress in 1898. What was the issue? Utah had delivered a polygamist to Congress, and Americans wanted him turned back.
Why is polygamy illegal??
It erodes and militates against monogamy, as does cohabitation, same-sex marriage, group marriage (5 men/5 women, for example), polyandry (you see nothing wrong with a woman who has 20 husbands?), etc.
Actually, it’s probably unwise to have smaller numbers of men father more of the children in a society, from a genetic perspective. I raise and show dogs. We have issues in all breeds, partly (and maybe mainly) because of problems associated with the size of the gene pools. One issue is called the popular sire syndrome, ie a few males are deemed really great, and so they are used more often as studs. Remember that ALL organisms have some bad genes. In nature, rarely does one individual swamp the gene pool with his genes, however, when one does, in a few generations, those bad genes become more prevalent in the offspring.
Of course, a few groups of polygamists won’t have an impact on the gene pool of the whole country, however, if polygamy becomes legal and large numbers of people decide to live like that, I think you would run into the same problems we have in dogs.
susie
Is it really Polygamy? they legally marry only one woman in the eyes of the law. The rest are “Spiritual Wives” without legal standing. Is that polygamy? The thing wasn’t so bad when they were “marrying” girls 18 and over, its “Profit” Warren Pervert who changed things so his guys could marry girls right out of puberty. By criminalizing it they went underground. 1. Get Warren to change things or 2. have them elect a new prophet with a brain in his head and not his pants. Let the cult be more open—let them run restaurants or make cheese or something where they can interact with the world. They could even attract female members to join up—so they wouldn’t need to grow their own future wives but get new foolish people to don the funny dresses and make babies. There are some women who might like the life style.
Polygamy is against the interests of heirs, society and the natural order.
If a man could support, by his own efforts, dozens of wives and children then it would have been an acceptable evolution - however, if we have learned anything from history - it is than men & women protect their own biological offspring from deprivation. We are naturally competitive, jealous and territorial for that purpose.
It is also very obvious that in this modern world, the FLDS men are not supporting their dozens of wives and children - WE, THE TAXPAYERS ARE DOING SO!!!!!!!!!!! I very much resent supporting pedophiles collecting welfare and women.
Maybe you don't mind supporting these men to have multi wives & huge families but many of us resent paying for it. Many of these families get welfare etc and it is not the govt nor anybody but that MAN's job to support his religious beliefs in needing so many wives & children. I won't bother to add my 2 cents on the underage sex & child abuse...Not to mention the fraud Warren Jeff's cult has cost taxpayers...