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The case for polygamy (Why shouldn’t marriage equality apply to them, too?)
Daily Caller ^
| 06/27/2013
| Matt Lewis
Posted on 06/27/2013 8:59:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
In the Old Testament, the punishment for homosexuality was death. The punishment for polygamy was multiple mother-in-laws.
To: Jack Hydrazine
I remember reading in the local newspaper (some 15 or more years ago) about some guy here in the US who wanted to marry his car. The court he petitioned turned him down. No joke!Did his mother object to the marriage?
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posted on
06/27/2013 9:23:43 AM PDT
by
TigersEye
("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
To: Uncle Miltie
I really like steelhead trout. Why cant I marry them all?All of them!?! Even a guy name Miltie might have a hard time satisfying all of them.
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posted on
06/27/2013 9:26:56 AM PDT
by
TigersEye
("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
To: Bernard Marx
Karl Marx,
“...communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality...Abolition of the family !...we destroy the most hallowed of relations...The bourgeois clap-trap about the family,about the hallowed co-relation of parent and child, becomes all the more disgusting... “
The Communist Manifesto.
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posted on
06/27/2013 9:27:28 AM PDT
by
Para-Ord.45
(Happily in tutelage by the reflection that they have chosen their own guardians.)
To: SeekAndFind
How about a way to get around inheritance laws? Marry your son or daughter? Besides, Muslims are into incest anyway.
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posted on
06/27/2013 9:28:16 AM PDT
by
Truth29
To: SeekAndFind
It will. AS so will “marrying” dogs and horses and sheep...and getting “spousal” employer benefits. Rush called this over 15 years ago.
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posted on
06/27/2013 9:30:20 AM PDT
by
CodeToad
(Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
To: SeekAndFind
The Bible puts them right next to each other.
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posted on
06/27/2013 9:31:23 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: SeekAndFind
The inevitable push for polygamy is one of the reasons that I could not support Mitt Romney for president.
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posted on
06/27/2013 9:31:47 AM PDT
by
Tau Food
(Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
To: SeekAndFind
The Bible puts them right next to each other.
Lev 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it [is] abomination.
Lev 18:23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it [is] confusion.
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posted on
06/27/2013 9:31:53 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: SeekAndFind
Re the discussion on polygamy, I suggest considering instead the idea of multi-party marriage contracts made for business and financial reasons. And not merely one-marriage with many partners, but many-to-many marriages, all for business and financial purposes.
For example, I’d marry my adult children for health insurance purposes.
For example, I’d marry, for a fee, a million subscribers who would share my insurance coverage and tax benefits.
For example, I’d marry into one set of partners for purpose A, and marry into other sets of partners for purposes B, C, D, and E.
I’d like to see a conservative group take the lead on this.
To: sickoflibs
I’ve changed my mind - I favor ‘marriage’ between any combination of living things.
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posted on
06/27/2013 9:34:43 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(... liberal anger - - the privileged wheeze of entitled brats ... Greenfield)
To: GOPJ
“Ive changed my mind - I favor marriage between any combination of living things.”
But I want to marry my Stratocaster! Who are you to deny the love between a man and his guitar?
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posted on
06/27/2013 9:38:54 AM PDT
by
ZirconEncrustedTweezers
(The average American voter is an idiot. Which is how the Dems want it.)
To: ealgeone
If the government would get out of the marriage business ie: tax exemptions, bennies, etc. none of this would be an issue.
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posted on
06/27/2013 9:40:06 AM PDT
by
sheana
To: sheana
How would you deal with the issues of divorce, custody of children, support of spouses and children?
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posted on
06/27/2013 9:41:53 AM PDT
by
Tau Food
(Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
To: Tau Food
That is an entirely different issue.
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posted on
06/27/2013 9:43:57 AM PDT
by
sheana
To: SeekAndFind
We’ve destroyed the institution of marriage. We might as well end governmental recognition of marriage. Just let churches handle it.
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posted on
06/27/2013 9:44:10 AM PDT
by
andyk
(I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
To: sheana
Are you proposing that government deal with divorce (the termination of marriage), custody of children, support of spouses and children, but not have
any rules regarding the creation of marriage?
I'm not sure how that would work.
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posted on
06/27/2013 9:47:16 AM PDT
by
Tau Food
(Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
To: ansel12
Now come on, let’s not blame something on Romney over which he has no control over...
To: SeekAndFind
The case for polygamy (Why shouldnt marriage equality apply to them, too?)Well; GOD did seem to mention it at one time; to one fella...
Polygamy: How it all got Started in America
Joe: Hey Emma! Guess what!?
Emma: You KNOW I hate these guessing games! What is it, Dear?
Joe: I heard a voice, probably the Lord, tell me I must take other wives.
Emma: WHAT!? You ding bat! Don't you KNOW what our precious BOOK says? After all; YOU are the one that translated it!
Joe: Books; schmooks. All I know is I've been COMMANDED to take other wives and you are to OBEY ME!!!
Emma: "Though shalt NOT commit ADULTERY!!!"
Joe: Silly Woman! You KNOW better than to take things out of CONTEXT!!!
...and the rest is HISTORY...
THE BOOK OF JACOB
THE BROTHER OF NEPHI
CHAPTER 2
24 Behold, David and Solomon truly had many wives and concubines, which thing was abominable before me, saith the Lord.
25 Wherefore, thus saith the Lord, I have led this people forth out of the land of Jerusalem, by the power of mine arm, that I might raise up unto me a righteous branch from the fruit of the loins of Joseph.
26 Wherefore, I the Lord God will not suffer that this people shall do like unto them of old.
27 Wherefore, my brethren, hear me, and hearken to the word of the Lord: For there shall not any man among you have save it be one wife; and concubines he shall have none;
28 For I, the Lord God, delight in the chastity of women. And whoredoms are an abomination before me; thus saith the Lord of Hosts.
29 Wherefore, this people shall keep my commandments, saith the Lord of Hosts, or cursed be the land for their sakes.
30 For if I will, saith the Lord of Hosts, raise up seed unto me, I will command my people; otherwise they shall hearken unto these things.
31 For behold, I, the Lord, have seen the sorrow, and heard the mourning of the daughters of my people in the land of Jerusalem, yea, and in all the lands of my people, because of the wickedness and abominations of their husbands.
32 And I will not suffer, saith the Lord of Hosts, that the cries of the fair daughters of this people, which I have led out of the land of Jerusalem, shall come up unto me against the men of my people, saith the Lord of Hosts.
Or even HERE:
1 Timothy 3:2-3
2. Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
3. not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.
1 Timothy 3:12
A deacon must be the husband of but one wife and must manage his children and his household well.
Titus 1:6
An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, a man whose children believe and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient.
Emma: That's IT! I'm LEAVING your sorry *!!!
Can't you EVER get straight what GOD tells you???
Doctrines and Covenants 49:16 Wherefore, it is lawful that he should have one a, and they twain shall be b flesh, and all this that the c might answer the end of its creation;
Joe: DARN you Emma; you were TOLD to accept this!! Wait!!! I hear a voice again!!!
THE
DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS
OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
SECTION 132
5157,
Emma Smith is counseled (commanded) to be faithful and true; 5866, Laws governing the plurality of wives are set forth.
51 Verily, I say unto you: A
commandment I give unto mine handmaid,
Emma Smith, your wife, whom I have given unto you, that she stay herself and partake not of that which I commanded you to offer unto her; for
I did it, saith the Lord, to
aprove you all, as I did Abraham, and that I might require an offering at your hand, by covenant and sacrifice.
52 And let mine handmaid,
Emma Smith,
areceive all those that have been given unto my servant Joseph, and who are virtuous and pure before me; and those who are not pure, and have said they were pure, shall be destroyed, saith the Lord God.
53 For I am the Lord thy God, and
ye shall obey my voice; and I give unto my servant Joseph that he shall be made ruler over many things; for he hath been
afaithful over a few things, and from henceforth I will strengthen him.
54 And I
command mine handmaid,
Emma Smith, to abide and
acleave unto my servant Joseph, and to none else. But if she will not abide this
commandment she shall be bdestroyed, saith the Lord; for I am the Lord thy God, and
will destroy her if she abide not in my law.
55 But if she will not abide this
commandment, then shall my servant Joseph do all things for her, even as he hath said; and I will bless him and multiply him and give unto him an
ahundredfold in this world, of fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, houses and lands, wives and children, and crowns of
beternal lives in the eternal worlds.
56 And again, verily I say, let mine handmaid
aforgive my servant Joseph his trespasses; and then shall she be forgiven her trespasses, wherein she has trespassed against me; and I, the Lord thy God, will bless her, and multiply her, and make her heart to
brejoice.
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posted on
06/27/2013 9:52:31 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Psalm 73
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posted on
06/27/2013 9:53:26 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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