[svcw]

Well, the law on polygamy and polyandry where set on paper along time ago, at the present there is no way around it, it is illegal.

Now in the future will it change, yes.

So what we have regardless of your personal feelings people breaking the law. In general nobody cares unless children are harmed or these people are taking taxpayer monies.

Because these women are not legally married they are eligible to receive welfare, and apparently they are in most cases, based on your previous comments that is your issue.

Personally I just don't get it. Most of the men I know can barley deal with one wife, why would they want more.

[Lurker]

In general nobody cares unless children are harmed or these people are taking taxpayer monies.

Apparently a whole bunch of people care even if no taxpayer monies are involved. Just scroll up the thread for proof. And these women may be eligible for some kind of welfare. I don't know. But there's no proof that there getting it. At least no one has been able to provide any.

Personally I agree with you that polygamy is one of those "self punishing" sort of things. But that doesn't mean I think it's the business of Government to tell consenting adults, at the point of a gun btw, that they can't order their lives the way they choose to.

These people aren't harming anyone. No one here is being forced to join this relationship and there is no fraud involved that I can see. Therefore I think the Government should butt out.

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[freedomlover]

“Personally I just don’t get it. Most of the men I know can barley deal with one wife, why would they want more.”

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Because the “most” men you likely know treat women as at least an approximate equal, as opposed to a second class servant. Certain men, especially in LDS circles, are tantalized by the idea of multiple sex servants, both here and in the hereafter.

Odd that even in “mainstream” LDS practice (its in the rulebook) that LDS men can be sealed to multiple women. Women? No no no!