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It's time to reconsider polygamy
CNN ^ | December 16, 2013 | Professor Mark Goldfeder

Posted on 12/17/2013 6:39:01 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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Polygamy is back in the headlines.

Last week, a federal judge in Utah struck down part of the state's anti-polygamy law as unconstitutional, although he kept the ban on possessing more than one marriage license at a time. Fans of the "Sister Wives" reality TV stars, who filed the suit, are rejoicing in the news.

At the other end of the spectrum, TLC debuted its newest docuseries, "Breaking the Faith," which tells the dark story of women and children trying to escape from the practice.

Another lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice alleges that polygamous clans are secretly running the show in Utah and Arizona townships, manipulating the political process from behind the scenes. And in Texas, the Attorney General's Office is inching closer to seizing a massive polygamous ranch.

Across the country, angry citizens are calling for the government to follow its own laws and crack down on polygamy.

Meanwhile, celebrities like Akon and various news outlets encourage people of all ages to reconsider plural marriage....

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; polyamory; polygamy; polygyny; television; utah
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You knew this was coming once x number of states had same-sex marriage.
1 posted on 12/17/2013 6:39:02 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: Salvation

Ping.


2 posted on 12/17/2013 6:40:18 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The most infuriating thing is, WE SAID THIS, and they scoffed! This is deliberate, incremental, debauchery pushed by the LENINIST LEFT!!!

UN-F-ING BELIEVABLE!.... yet still.. EXTREMELY BELIEVABLE!


3 posted on 12/17/2013 6:40:39 PM PST by Viennacon
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To: Viennacon

Well in order to rebuild a system you have to break it first.


4 posted on 12/17/2013 6:41:30 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Viennacon

I’m not sure “incremental” is even the right word — these people are stomping on the accelerator.


5 posted on 12/17/2013 6:41:54 PM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I read this earlier today (from a Facebook link, go figure).

I think the writer seriously fails to realize the complicated and messy legal can of worms a marriage of 3 or more persons would open.

But it sure would keep the lawyers employed.


6 posted on 12/17/2013 6:42:20 PM PST by Valpal1 (If the police can t solve a problem with brute force, they ll find a way to fix it with brute force)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yeah, America needs more slugs with 3 or 4 wives and 28 kids on welfare.


7 posted on 12/17/2013 6:43:31 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Merry Christmas to all my fellow Americans. "Whatever" to everybody else!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Incremenetal in the sense that they take it stage by stage, saying the next stage will never happen, and then low and behold, they move on to the next stage!

All Americans must be told that these people want to legalize child rape, and if you don’t believe it, think again!


8 posted on 12/17/2013 6:44:08 PM PST by Viennacon
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; MeganC; GOPsterinMA
Hmmm....Good Question....

http://youtu.be/sJIWLs18jsU?t=2m23s

I'll take all of them please :)

9 posted on 12/17/2013 6:44:35 PM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: KC_Lion

Yeah, yeah!!! ;)


10 posted on 12/17/2013 6:46:05 PM PST by GOPsterinMA (You're a very weird person, Yossarian.)
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To: Viennacon

11 posted on 12/17/2013 6:46:16 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (A courageous man finds a way, an ordinary man finds an excuse.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oh yeah, I am totally convinced polygamy will be on the table now that same sex marriage is legal.


12 posted on 12/17/2013 6:46:36 PM PST by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Viennacon

You are correct. It’s the ratchet effect — always turning a bit more to the Left, never seeming to ever move at all to the Right. These people are experts on incremental change. My observation was technically incorrect, but I just meant that they used to make a big move every 5 years or so — but under Obama they are making their incremental moves to the Left on a monthly basis. It’s unreal.


13 posted on 12/17/2013 6:48:33 PM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I had a little gay kid shouting at me outside the polling place a couple of years ago. I said “no gay marriage”.

Then I say why not allow old men to marry their daughters … or 4 people marry each other. He said that would “never happen”.

I said “why not?”

He was silent. How can you say “it’s not moral” or aberrant?


14 posted on 12/17/2013 6:50:10 PM PST by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Yes, they are speeding up. I honestly didn’t expect polygamy to be on the cards for another few years yet, but here it is!

Khrushchev once said ‘we will bury you’. We have buried ourselves.


15 posted on 12/17/2013 6:51:26 PM PST by Viennacon
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yup. All the “oh, it’s not the same at all” shtick held no real water. If for no other reason than it’s not just about the constitutionality of things. Once you take something that has been as unchanging and set-in-stone as the definition of marriage, and add a radical change to it (gay marriage), the inviolability of the concept is gone. Now, most any faction seeking to challenge the notion of traditional marriage can stake its claim and claim legitimacy. Playing Devil’s Advocate, if we accept that two men can love each other and get married, why can we not accept that a man can love two (or more) women and enter into matrimony with them? That sort of thing.


16 posted on 12/17/2013 6:53:39 PM PST by DemforBush (I'm siiiinging in the rain *kick* Just siiingin' in the rain! *kick* *kick*)
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To: KC_Lion

17 posted on 12/17/2013 6:55:53 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (A courageous man finds a way, an ordinary man finds an excuse.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No, it is time to reconsider allowing government to have any role whatsoever in defining and regulating marriage.

Marriage is defined by God, not the State. When the people of a State were supportive of the godly institution of marriage, their laws tended to be in harmony with God’s Law. But now that forces that are hostile to God’s definition of marriage have gained sufficient control in many States, they are redefining marriage with the intent on destroying it.

In order to save marriage, we must restore the separation between marriage and the State.


18 posted on 12/17/2013 6:56:32 PM PST by theBuckwheat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Those all YOURS 2DV?

lol!

Or Perhaps they are your daughters and you are suggesting I would make a Great Husband! :D

19 posted on 12/17/2013 6:58:12 PM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: BunnySlippers

Sharia law ,too.


20 posted on 12/17/2013 6:58:56 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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