is polygamy next?

Posted by johnpe1 10 years ago to Culture
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what do you think of multiple wives / husbands??? -- j
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 10 years ago
    As for polygamy why not? The dual system as promoted for two hundred plus years has resulted int a 60% divorce rate not counting separations and dysfunctional families that should have. Not much validity from the religious side where it's pretty much all show and no go pass the plate and if you aren't their to toss money in the pot no one knows you. Which doesn't mean I'm not religious but I don't need some hypocritical intercessor in the way. That is point one.

    Point two the whole thing benefits the lawyers and not much more other than a good deal of charity work one of which are the religious professonals themselves.

    Point Three The entire welfare system is religious in nature and based on the brothers keeper admonition. It's a direct establishment of the trappings of a government religion or church.

    Better they stuck to their job and quit going so far afield.

    Point. If their are still children starving in the country why is the government stealing their food and shipping it overseas instead of to food banks?
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Sheep shearing is the only civilian skilled I wasn't called upon to perform while in the Army. Milked cows for them on a civic mission one time and ran a hay baler another time. Burdizos a third time and more than once collected rocky mountain oysters. Benefits of FFA and Vocational Agriculture
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  • Posted by johnpe1 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I tried shearing, when we had sheep. . it is tough;;

    hard to keep from cutting the flesh!!! -- j

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  • Posted by johnpe1 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    every time I see a fire-breathing dragon on tv, I think

    of those "creatures in government." -- j

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  • Posted by broskjold22 10 years ago
    Multiple wives and husbands sounds a lot like the 60's and 70's, but with more complicated legal and monetary arrangements. Besides, if you were a husband to three wives and or a wife to three husbands, or a husband to three wives each of whom had three husbands, well, isn't that just dating with a lot of different wedding bands and/or children to sort out? It sounds like a communal society would result where men would pool their resources. That's starting to sound like the opposite of Objectivism.
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  • Posted by BradA 10 years ago
    Since we're talking about the State getting involved in something it shouldn't, the one area it can reasonably address are taxes. So, should the State grant additional deductions or credits for every wife (or husband) added to a marriage? If not, then is the state not engaging in discrimination against multiply unioned partners?

    Oooh, I just had another thought! We can eliminate death taxes ourselves. Simply extend a polygamous marriage by adding younger generations to the union so that when the older generation dies off the assets remain in the original marriage just with new survivors. Wow, I think this might catch on. OK, I thunk it up. I get dibs on naming it and any potential residuals. Your welcome.
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  • Posted by jpellone 10 years ago
    The government and the left has already destroyed the pride in being an American!!!! It is to kill children, everyone does not have to assimilate into America, it is ok if you don't want to speak English (press 1 or 2), all of our packages have more than one language on them, let's remove religion from everything, make our children a bunch of stoned idiots, and on and on and on.

    Traditional marriage was one of the last real American traditions outline in the bible. The left is turning us into a bunch of sinners!!!!!

    Next comes removing the American flag and that will be a sad day!!!!
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  • Posted by ChuckyBob 10 years ago
    Ok, just so you know some background, back 4 or 5 generations there was a lot of polygamy in my family. I have heard several anecdotal stories about problems. It can get very messy on several levels. But I'm sure the divorce lawyers would love plural marriage to be legalized since that would be a very target rich environment. Now, for a little history...when the feds passed passed the law against polygamy there was a test case that went to the SCOTUS and the law was found to be constitutional, even though the constitution leaves laws on marriage up to the states. So, if another test case on the federal law ever came up they would have to fight that precedent. Judicial activism is nothing new.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 10 years ago
    A few years ago my wife and I listened to a sermon at our UU congregation in support of polyamory. We joked one day we're going to embarrass our kids by accidentally calling it by the old name, "polygamy".
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 10 years ago
    Dumb...Can YOU imagine having TWO nagging wives, never forgetting the one mistake you made 100 years before you were married?! If you think your gona contain 2 modern day women in a relationship with one man! your crazy...it'll be the War on Women alllllllll over again.

    Equally...I can't see a 'Real Man' (not today's emasculated sissy man) sharing one women unless he really doesn't care for her. I am sure the sex nazi's will try but I can't see it going far. What ever happened to nature, the way things are designed. Everyone ignores reality and decides to just make it up as they go...just like the creatures in government.
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  • Posted by $ jlc 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes, blackswan. A martial-artsy woman, but definitely a woman.

    Did you ask that because of my enthusiasm for the development of External Gestational Devices or because I included the possibility of a man becoming pregnant?

    Jan
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  • Posted by RonJohnson 10 years ago
    Sounds good to me. Let me check with my wife and see if she'll let me....
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    Posted by jtrikakis 10 years ago
    Funny, such a thing is all over the Old Testament. Trouble was God allowed, but never blessed it. The same for our same sex group today. Go ahead, enjoy your man made laws while you can.
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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 10 years ago
    The real issue is not the marriage contract, religious or civil, but sexual relations. The governing rule should be that no sexual relationship is lawful if all parties involved aren't consenting adult humans. Multiple forms of out of the ordinary marital arrangements, such as polygyny, polyandry, communal marital "families" with both multiple male and female participants, and even adult incest should be legal. No tax advantage should result from any marital arrangement.

    Since animals and children are not capable of giving adult, advised consent, pedophelia and bestiality both should be criminal activities.
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  • Posted by Eyecu2 10 years ago
    Polygamy, Bestiality and Legalized Pedophilia it is only a matter of time.
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  • Posted by Technocracy 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    One of my favorites.

    I referenced it because of the gene selection their society was doing. Which was why Ethan Hawke's character had to do what he did to achieve his goals.
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