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Legalizing Plural Marriage: The Next Frontier in Family Law
University Press of New England ^ | February 16, 2016 | Mark Goldfeder

Posted on 02/19/2017 8:00:40 AM PST by C19fan

Offers a legal and historical context for reforming family law and legalizing plural marriage

Polygamous marriages are currently recognized in nearly fifty countries worldwide. Although polygamy is technically illegal in the United States, it is practiced by members of some religious communities and a growing number of other “poly” groups. In the radically changing and increasingly multicultural world in which we live, the time has come to define polygamous marriage and address its legal feasibilities.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: polygamy
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To: C19fan
In a lot if ways polygamy seems really natural.

The biggest obstacles, ofoucrse, being women's (in gemeral) inability to get along with one another and need for drama.

The second being the Donald Trump alphas of the world would get all the women, living little for regular, lesser so men.

21 posted on 02/19/2017 8:27:58 AM PST by riri (Obama's Amerika--Not a fun place.)
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To: C19fan
"The man who wants to have two wives has never had two wives."

Brigham Young

22 posted on 02/19/2017 8:28:19 AM PST by TYVets
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To: C19fan

Theft doesn’t want polygamy but polyamory (aka free sex).


23 posted on 02/19/2017 8:28:42 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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To: C19fan

Of course it’s coming. How do you think muzzies plan to multiply?

It will come after a prominent celebrity comes out as BI and gets its pic on the cover of People or some other fluff mag.


24 posted on 02/19/2017 8:29:39 AM PST by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: C19fan

I agree with the honest pundit who pointed out that nothing has been more destructive to the institution of marriage in this country than the widespread acceptance of divorce among Americans who call themselves Christians.


25 posted on 02/19/2017 8:30:24 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Yo, bartender -- Jobu needs a refill!")
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To: C19fan

And muslims and perverts will get the age of sex between adults and children lowered greatly.


26 posted on 02/19/2017 8:30:43 AM PST by umgud
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To: Trump20162020
The Left shrieked "consented adults!" for over a decade about gay marriage.

Here's one for you. The entire concept of "consent" is a Judeo-Christian construct. And we know how the Left feels about those.

27 posted on 02/19/2017 8:30:44 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies Tell me where is sanity?)
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To: C19fan

Then after this, no age limit so an old man can marry a 14 year old girl.


28 posted on 02/19/2017 8:32:04 AM PST by dhs12345
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To: Rurudyne

Already happening


29 posted on 02/19/2017 8:32:13 AM PST by Smellin Salt
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To: TYVets

Misery times (X)


30 posted on 02/19/2017 8:32:34 AM PST by refermech
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To: Nifster

>> Then they got the bright idea that they could increase control if they did<<

I disagree. There was a time when it was understood that the traditional family unit is the real cornerstone of American greatness.

Tax laws were crafted to encourage marriage and families.

Add to that legal issues of inheritance and the legal nature of a “community” and it can be seen why it is a governmental issue.

But that is all gone now. Let everyone draft whatever the hell kind of co-asset-sharing agreement they want.

And watch America go to hell in a handbasket.


31 posted on 02/19/2017 8:34:34 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Not tired of winning yet!)
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To: C19fan

And now you know, boys and girls, why the Bar Association votes Leftist ... because the chaos that the Left pushes and legislates creates more lawsuits and endless employment for lawyers.


32 posted on 02/19/2017 8:35:49 AM PST by Lizavetta
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To: C19fan

33 posted on 02/19/2017 8:37:35 AM PST by Proyecto Anonimo
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To: C19fan

Putting aside the morality, we taxpayers have to pay, literally, for their sins. Refugees with multiple wives claim their first wife and the rest of their wives and children are called extended family, and we get to pay for everyone! The Mormons sister wives have been living off welfare for years, as they are considered single moms.


34 posted on 02/19/2017 8:39:11 AM PST by Rusty0604
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To: freedumb2003

Tell me where in the constitution does the federal government gain power over marriage?


35 posted on 02/19/2017 8:40:01 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Rurudyne
We won’t be free until people with multiple personalities can marry their other selves!

I have been having an argument with myselves over this very matter. We are very divided over this.

36 posted on 02/19/2017 8:40:24 AM PST by BipolarBob (I thought money was burning a hole in my pocket but it was just my Samsung Note 7.)
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To: 2banana

Exactly...sharia compliance pregaming.


37 posted on 02/19/2017 8:40:32 AM PST by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: nickedknack

I might have agreed with you until that last one. Nobody should have to suffer that (except of course Bill Clinton).


38 posted on 02/19/2017 8:41:57 AM PST by Hardastarboard (Freedom Trumps Fascism)
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To: C19fan

In the modern era civil marriage can only be defined by whatever judges, pols, or the voting majority think it is at any one time. That’s it, that’s all civil marriage ever can be to the state, it doesn’t have any other way to define it. Pope Leo XIII warned about the danger civil authorities defining marriage 130+ years ago. It conditions people to just go along with whatever the state puts forth as marriage, because ‘it’s the law.’ First civil divorce and remarriage, then really easy civil divorce and remarriage, now ‘gay marriage,’ next comes some other impossibility approved by the civil authorities.

Freegards


39 posted on 02/19/2017 8:45:16 AM PST by Ransomed
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To: C19fan

I’m still waiting for bestiality to be legalized so I can marry a dog that can pump out large litters. Think of the dependent deductions.


40 posted on 02/19/2017 8:47:32 AM PST by meatloaf
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