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Polygamy? It's positively biblical
The Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | 5/18/08 | Martha Nussbaum

Posted on 05/18/2008 12:35:02 AM PDT by ansel12

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1 posted on 05/18/2008 12:35:02 AM PDT by ansel12
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Today, it is used as a scare image to deter people from approving same-sex marriage, lest it lead down a slippery slope to that horror of horrors.

BS Gaystapo.

There is much more cultural tradition around the world for polygamy than there is for same sex couples raising children as man and spouse.

2 posted on 05/18/2008 12:41:15 AM PDT by weegee (Vote NO on Marxism in 2008.)
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To: ansel12
Think of anti-Semitism in European history, Islamophobia, and - perhaps above all - fear and loathing of gays and lesbians.

Show me a tradition among Islam to be tolerant of all other faiths including Buddhism and Hinduism and conversion away from Islam and maybe you can BEGIN to use a term like "Islamophobia". They aren't victims. They are tyrannical oppressors.

3 posted on 05/18/2008 12:44:48 AM PDT by weegee (Vote NO on Marxism in 2008.)
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"There is much more cultural tradition around the world for polygamy than there is for same sex couples raising children as man and spouse."

For 'America' to survive, we can't tolerate this stuff.

4 posted on 05/18/2008 12:48:44 AM PDT by ansel12 (post-apocalyptic drifter uttered three words, polygamous zombie vampires!)
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Stupid, stupid woman. Polygamy is the end of women’s rights, you moron.

In “theory,” the practice of “polyamory” is just a further expansion of our glorious freedoms, and who would be against freedoms? In *practice*, polygamy means what it means in Islam—basically the indenture of women.

But I give the woman credit for validating the thesis that gay marriage opens the door to other “frontiers” of marriage. Now that gay marriage is established, we’ll be seeing more pieces like this, along with similar pieces asking “What’s wrong with child marriage anyway?” and “What’s wrong with incestuous marriage anyway?”


5 posted on 05/18/2008 12:52:13 AM PDT by denydenydeny (Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
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To: ansel12

Maybe all those wackos in Montana, Idaho, and in the Michigan Militia had it right with living off the grid and away from civilization. It seems any godfearing, harworking conservative male is the physical manifestation of evil itself in the modernworld


6 posted on 05/18/2008 12:53:10 AM PDT by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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To: LukeL

You have to fill me in, I don’t know what you mean.


7 posted on 05/18/2008 12:55:02 AM PDT by ansel12 (post-apocalyptic drifter uttered three words, polygamous zombie vampires!)
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To: denydenydeny

“Now that gay marriage is established, we’ll be seeing more pieces like this, along with similar pieces asking “What’s wrong with child marriage anyway?” and “What’s wrong with incestuous marriage anyway?”


An endless number.


8 posted on 05/18/2008 12:56:58 AM PDT by ansel12 (post-apocalyptic drifter uttered three words, polygamous zombie vampires!)
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[Article] The hypocrisy of the monogamist majority reached its height in the denial (often heard in Congress) that there could be a serious religious argument for polygamy: hypocrisy, because the monogamists were denying their own heritage. [Emphasis added]

Yes, a heritage that also includes savagery, cannibalism, butchery of live animals, sexual debauchery and abuse of every description, murder, mass-murder, every conceivable transgression against the Noahide Laws, the Laws of Hammurabi, the law of Moses, and, as Marlon Brando once said, "what have you got?"

If this scribblerette were any gamier, she'd be covered in maggots.

The ascension from what this woman drags in as our "heritage" is precisely the common endeavor we call "civilization", which is what she barks at.

Which makes her part of the problem, not part of the answer.

9 posted on 05/18/2008 1:00:23 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: ansel12
"There is much more cultural tradition around the world for polygamy than there is for same sex couples raising children as man and spouse."

There's a great argument for you. You could say the same thing about wife-beating, slavery, and blood feuds.

10 posted on 05/18/2008 1:01:25 AM PDT by denydenydeny (Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
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......similar pieces asking “What’s wrong with child marriage anyway?” and “What’s wrong with incestuous marriage anyway?”

Yes, and let's include "what's wrong with bumping off gay apologists who annoy us?" What is hypocritical is the writer's polemical denial of the many, many benefits our "straightness" confers on her. On everyone, for that matter.

11 posted on 05/18/2008 1:03:34 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: denydenydeny
Someone sent me a humor forward the other day that consisted of an impressive evening photograph of the Great Pyramids with the banner caption, "SLAVERY. It gets sh*t done."
12 posted on 05/18/2008 1:06:10 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: ansel12
This kind of garbage is laying the groundwork for legalizing polygamy. It will accomplish several leftist goals at once. A slippery slope indeed.
13 posted on 05/18/2008 1:07:29 AM PDT by TheWasteLand
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To: lentulusgracchus

“Yes, and let’s include “what’s wrong with bumping off gay apologists who annoy us?” What is hypocritical is the writer’s polemical denial of the many, many benefits our “straightness” confers on her. On everyone, for that matter.”


Thanks:
I think that you just helped show how thorough our conditioning has been.


14 posted on 05/18/2008 1:14:33 AM PDT by ansel12 (post-apocalyptic drifter uttered three words, polygamous zombie vampires!)
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To: TheWasteLand

This kind of garbage is laying the groundwork for legalizing polygamy. It will accomplish several leftist goals at once.
An increase in radical “freedom” - always a liberal goal, so long as it fits with their cultural agenda.
Further weakening and degradation of the traditional family as the basic unit of society - the family has always been the great enemy of statism.
The next step in the liberal multicultural appeasement of muslims.
A slippery slope indeed.


I agree.


15 posted on 05/18/2008 1:27:07 AM PDT by ansel12 (post-apocalyptic drifter uttered three words, polygamous zombie vampires!)
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The government will fight polygamy since it affects so many laws that would have to be rewritten. It also affects our tax system and social services. It could be a real mess were it to become widespread.


16 posted on 05/18/2008 1:47:58 AM PDT by yorkie01
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To: ansel12

So it wasn’t cheating. It was prophecy....oo yeah baby...WTF?


17 posted on 05/18/2008 1:50:05 AM PDT by allmost
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To: yorkie01

Americans detest even the implication that a true American, would even consider these nasty Arab ideas.


18 posted on 05/18/2008 1:52:50 AM PDT by ansel12 (post-apocalyptic drifter uttered three words, polygamous zombie vampires!)
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To: allmost

Keep it simple, it is 2:00 my time. What is the exact wording?


19 posted on 05/18/2008 1:56:10 AM PDT by ansel12 (post-apocalyptic drifter uttered three words, polygamous zombie vampires!)
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You’ve got your spot.


20 posted on 05/18/2008 2:06:20 AM PDT by allmost
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