Posted on 07/22/2008 3:46:15 PM PDT by Zakeet
I'm finally doing something helpful for a change!
Also in the article, pro-polygamy groups are upset because Reid will not allow them to testify as to their perceived positive benefits of polygamy. They are threatening to show up at the hearings to protest the bill.
Undoubtedly the other major religion espousing polygamy, Islam, will want to get in on the act.
This may get interesting before long.
Although I’m a one man, one wife, one vote kinda guy I think our nation has far more pressing problems the Senate should be addressing.
Harry Reid is a polymophobe! How DARE he tell consenting adults who they are allowed to love! He’s trying to write discrimination into the law books! < /gay activist mindset>
Finally, they are doing something about the price of oil?
“Undoubtedly the other major religion espousing polygamy, Islam, will want to get in on the act.”
Oops.
Fatwa! Jihad! Allah FUBAR!
lol. Exactly!
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Dems want "gay marriage" but, no polygamy. When they get to the "no adultery" and "no-bestiality" part of their show, I'll start paying attention. But by golly, the Lib-Dems in SF usually allow NAMBLA to march in the gaypride events. But no polygamy.
I feel like I'm watching the "anybody but the Irish!" part of Blazing Saddles
Man, he won’t allow drilling to happen anywhere will he? (couldn’t resist)
If they were just a bunch of free loving hippies, we might not approve of their lifestyle, but I doubt there'd be any serious movement to shut them down.
Well, let’s think about what major issue threatens the security of the nation ;is it polygamy?no,it is cheap energy! Cheap energy drives an expanding economy that improves everyone’s life. But Reid fights that and goes for an expansion of federal police powers and freepers cheer him !?
How many "unconventional" partnerings exist with the occupants of Section 8 housing?
See what happens when a Mormon is put in charge? The media should’ve look at his little special interest perks a long time ago.
God Bless Senator Harry Reid and anyone else who helps these poor victims who escape this hellish practice called polygamy..
Agreed, but also keep in mind that “The problem lies in the underage girls forced into marriage, the boys cast out on the street, the welfare fraud and the authoritarian and abusive cultures”, describes problems that also appear in cultish groups that don’t practice polygamy (except the “boys cast out” phenomenon, which is clearly tied to polygamy). There are quite a lot of consenting-adult polygamists out there, some affiliated with other Mormon sects and probably even more who are just independently practicing it because their personal lives just happened to work out that way. It’s just that the crazies get all the headlines, causing a public perception that polygamists=crazies.
Positive benefits of polygamy?
Isn’t lying breaking one of the Ten Commandments?
I agree as well.
Polygamy is already illegal so it’s going to be hard to go after them because it doesn’t exist on paper and will be hard to prove; those involved will just deny it. So technically, it really isn’t polygamy in the legal sense, it’s just common, run of the mill adultery.
Well, maybe not so run of the mill. I don’t know too many women who would agree to the live in girlfriend under normal circumstances.
Saundra will be there??
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