[EnglishCon]

Purely for the mental exercise and discussion, and not something I condone at all, but:

By what right did the federal government have to stop polygamy?

[ansel12]

It sounds like you prefer polygamy not being stopped. That is pretty much the point of this thread isn’t it, that anything called a church “defines” marriage to it’s own desires and purposes?

[Mrs. Don-o]

Though I am a firm supporter of free, faithful, sacred fertile union of one man and one woman --- I too wonder how the federal govt. could stop polygamy. I don't mean that they should *approve* and *license* it, I just mean why should they butt into a private contractual agreement?

I'm open to discussion on this, one way or the other.

My default position seems to be: I am highly skeptical of civil marriage.

[Venturer]

Purely for the mental exercise and discussion, and not something I condone at all, but:

By what right did the federal government have to stop polygamy?
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By the same right they had to stop prostitution.

It didn’t suit the majority.

Now the world has become so Fugged up that a majority see Homosexuality as “normal”.

At least enough see it that way that they are trying to get it approved.