Posted on 02/11/2020 3:28:31 PM PST by MacNaughton
From 1852 to 1890, polygamy was regularly practiced in the Mormon church. Polygamy was first practiced by Joseph Smith after God supposedly gave him a direct revelation, but it was later defended by Apostle Orson Pratt, which gave it widespread approval until Utah territory joined the United States under the condition that polygamy would be discontinued.
A new law in Utah is set to reverse that and remove heavy criminal penalties for being married to more than one spouse. It was commonly said during the gay marriage debate in the United States that once sodomy-based unions were legalized, polygamy would follow. Although some mocked the prediction, it seems to be coming true. Utah has more than 30 thousand living in polygamous communities and they seem to have found a friend in Utah senator, Deidre Henderson.
The Republican lawmaker said, “The law is a failure. It hasn’t stopped polygamy at all and it’s actually enabled abuse to occur and remain unchecked.
Local news outlets say Henderson’s bill “has gathered significant support.” The bill was unanimously approved by a legislative panel Monday.
On a practical level, what does this mean for things like survivors’ insurance in Social Security, etc.?
There's actually much more reason to give marriage recognition to the polygamous than to the sodomistically perverse. At least polygamy is procreative---and procreative potential is precisely why (heterosexual) marriage is unlike any other social alliance.
There is -zero- reason to circumscribe an inherently sterile relationship (man+man or woman+woman)with duties or award it with benefits.
Mitt and the polygamists. Wasn’t mitts father or grandfather born in Mexico?
The mormons never stopped practicing polygamy in 1890...they lied about it in order to get statehood...
Mormon “prophets” continued to have multiple wives until at least 1945 ...
Willard is the son of George Romney who was born into a several generations polygamous family in Mexico...
Years ago he complained about the discomfit of trying to live polygamously “in the desert” but he has never denounced polygamy a ifestyle...
So is mitt natural born?
The bill would decriminalize polygamy, not legalize it. Makes it an “infraction” rather than a felony.
One wife is quite enough (or more) thank you very much that a mortal man can handle. Let the mormon men die young with coronaries if they want.
Simple: Equal fractions.
Polygamy & magic underwear! OH BOY!
Marriage = One Man and One Woman Until Death Do Us Part
Willard is like Obama...US mother, foreign father...
The Mormons left the US determined to never return here...they denounced their US citizenship because of our polygamy laws and moved to Mexico to stay...
George Romney and his half siblings his father and all the sister wives fled back due to a revolution in Mexico...
What makes you think Mitt Romney doesn’t have a few stashed away somewhere? He’s such a slick-mister I wouldn’t put it past him.
“That’s bigamy!”
“Big of you? I think it’s rather big of him!” - Groucho Marx
Who would WANT to live with more than one women... really
Yes i think from same town the polygamist mom and kids were killed on the road.
If the Lord says no, end of discussion.
No one. Easier to have an affair on the side.
Legalizing polygamy means ALL state and federal benefits must accrue like any other legal marriage. But since almost all polygamy is male with multiple wives, with the added component of government financial benefits, this will naturally lead to sexplotation akin to a pimp extorting his hookers. In this context, polygamy is nothing but human trafficking, and the state is essentially legally making the women de facto property. The exact same case can be made for marriage to minors. Pandoras box that is wrong on so many levels, and originally opened with gay marriage.
Muslims would go for this as well
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