Personally, I couldn't be married to more than one woman, but if someone else chooses to marry 10 different women, let them. As long as this doesn't require that they live off the welfare system, this type of marriage doesn't affect you. I have similar feelings on gay marriage, but then again, I'll keep my mouth shut on that issue since it would probably mean the end to my posting here...la
"Personally, I couldn't be married to more than one woman, but if someone else chooses to marry 10 different women, let them."
Well, I'm not fundamentally opposed to plural marriage, as long as all participants are adults and wish to be married. It's certainly not for me, but I can't really find any firm reason to oppose it.
In reality, the plural marriages that exist in Utah, Arizona, etc., aren't actually illegal, since only one is recorded as a legal marriage. The rest of the wives are not legally married to the man.
When it gets into young women under the age of consent, then I have a real problem with it. Otherwise, I don't much care.
The reality is that there's lots of it going on already. It's not legal marriage, but there's basically no law against a man living with several women, or vice versa. Only if they apply for a marriage license is it illegal. So, lots of folks are in plural marriages, apparently, and cannot be touched by the law.
What about State Senator Ford from Tennessee who has children by 3 different women?? Don't know if he is/has been married to any of them. He was b!tching and moaning about the amount of child support he was having to pay. Not a polygamist, but he sure is spreading himself around and not wanting to support the outcome!
Read the book.
Polygamy cheapens all marriage, destroys families and turns half of our population into slaves.
It's a wicked, sinful, perverted institution.
It may not affect you or me personally, but it affects the women involved, the children involved, and society in general. It's a bad idea for our current society, which is why it's illegal. At one time it may have been necessary (say, in Biblical times). More wives = more children = more workers doing the grueling chores. But today's society doesn't operate that way.