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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr


I could not be happier that the courts may finally lift the yolk of Victorian sexual oppression

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ORIGINAL: leonine

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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr


I could not be happier that the courts may finally lift the yolk of Victorian sexual oppression

It's very white of them, but they'll have egg on their faces if there's a scramble. Still, you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.

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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers

Polygamy and all of the assorted offshoots are finally being re-addressed by our federal courts.

Here

Once any crimes or abuses are stripped away in cases like the Browns’, what remains is religious animus. Yet, polygamy is widely practiced around the world by millions of families and was condoned by every major religion — from Judaism to Christianity to Islam — at one time.

While plural families are called polygamists in our popular lexicon, “polygamy” actually refers to a broad array of plural relationships, from polygyny (one husband and multiple wives, like the Browns) to polyandry (a single wife and multiple husbands) to polyamory (couples who reject the exclusivity of sexual relations).

The vast majority of these families are based on consenting relations among adults without abusive or criminal histories.

Personally I feel it is long since time these laws are struck down. The religious right are up in arms about freedom of religion...only when it suits them as this is every bit as much a...free exercise of religion, or not.

What say you ?

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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers

Polygamy and all of the assorted offshoots are finally being re-addressed by our federal courts.

Here

Once any crimes or abuses are stripped away in cases like the Browns’, what remains is religious animus. Yet, polygamy is widely practiced around the world by millions of families and was condoned by every major religion — from Judaism to Christianity to Islam — at one time.

While plural families are called polygamists in our popular lexicon, “polygamy” actually refers to a broad array of plural relationships, from polygyny (one husband and multiple wives, like the Browns) to polyandry (a single wife and multiple husbands) to polyamory (couples who reject the exclusivity of sexual relations).

The vast majority of these families are based on consenting relations among adults without abusive or criminal histories.

Personally I feel it is long since time these laws are struck down. The religious right are up in arms about freedom of religion...only when it suits them as this is every bit as much a...free exercise of religion, or not.

What say you ?

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ORIGINAL: LafayetteLady

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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers

Polygamy and all of the assorted offshoots are finally being re-addressed by our federal courts.

Here

Once any crimes or abuses are stripped away in cases like the Browns’, what remains is religious animus. Yet, polygamy is widely practiced around the world by millions of families and was condoned by every major religion — from Judaism to Christianity to Islam — at one time.

While plural families are called polygamists in our popular lexicon, “polygamy” actually refers to a broad array of plural relationships, from polygyny (one husband and multiple wives, like the Browns) to polyandry (a single wife and multiple husbands) to polyamory (couples who reject the exclusivity of sexual relations).

The vast majority of these families are based on consenting relations among adults without abusive or criminal histories.

Personally I feel it is long since time these laws are struck down. The religious right are up in arms about freedom of religion...only when it suits them as this is every bit as much a...free exercise of religion, or not.

What say you ?

Actually, Polygamy, polygyny and polyandry refer to marriages. Polyamory refers to consenting multiple partners.

Historically, when a woman has multiple husbands, it is for population control.

If you are going to try to make a point, at least get your facts right.

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ORIGINAL: LafayetteLady

Historically, that is why it was done. Feel free to research it yourself. It is taught in almost any college level Sociology class.

This is not popular in the US, but in over populated countries, and is pure logic, which you apparently lack. A woman can have only one baby every 40 weeks. Theoretically, a man can impregnate a woman 365 days a year. Again, common sense.

Since you are obviously too lazy to look it up, or simply think I'm making it up:

Polyandry

CLIP: Polyandry is believed to be more likely in societies with scarce environmental resources, as it is believed to limit human population growth and enhance child survival


Polyandry, or the practice of taking multiple husbands

CLIP: Polyandry evolved, like many other marriage systems, as a pragmatic way of property management and population control.


Just because you are unfamiliar with something, and too lazy to look it up, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. So now you have "backup" for the statement.

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ORIGINAL: kalikshama

Someone on another thread mentioned reading "Wife No 19" by Ann Eliza Young and I thought I'd bring my question here:

A few years ago, I read The 19th Wife: A Novel, which has two narratives - Ann Eliza Young and a modern day story of a young man who was thrown out of his fundamentalist sect.

I'm not opposed to polygamy in general, but where do you draw the line to prevent abusive situations such as historically and the not long ago Warren Jeffs case?

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ORIGINAL: LafayetteLady

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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers

Polygamy and all of the assorted offshoots are finally being re-addressed by our federal courts.

Here

Once any crimes or abuses are stripped away in cases like the Browns’, what remains is religious animus. Yet, polygamy is widely practiced around the world by millions of families and was condoned by every major religion — from Judaism to Christianity to Islam — at one time.

While plural families are called polygamists in our popular lexicon, “polygamy” actually refers to a broad array of plural relationships, from polygyny (one husband and multiple wives, like the Browns) to polyandry (a single wife and multiple husbands) to polyamory (couples who reject the exclusivity of sexual relations).

The vast majority of these families are based on consenting relations among adults without abusive or criminal histories.

Personally I feel it is long since time these laws are struck down. The religious right are up in arms about freedom of religion...only when it suits them as this is every bit as much a...free exercise of religion, or not.

What say you ?

Actually, Polygamy, polygyny and polyandry refer to marriages. Polyamory refers to consenting multiple partners.

Historically, when a woman has multiple husbands, it is for population control.

If you are going to try to make a point, at least get your facts right.

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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers
What say you ?

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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers

Polygamy and all of the assorted offshoots are finally being re-addressed by our federal courts.

Here

Once any crimes or abuses are stripped away in cases like the Browns’, what remains is religious animus. Yet, polygamy is widely practiced around the world by millions of families and was condoned by every major religion — from Judaism to Christianity to Islam — at one time.

While plural families are called polygamists in our popular lexicon, “polygamy” actually refers to a broad array of plural relationships, from polygyny (one husband and multiple wives, like the Browns) to polyandry (a single wife and multiple husbands) to polyamory (couples who reject the exclusivity of sexual relations).

The vast majority of these families are based on consenting relations among adults without abusive or criminal histories.

Personally I feel it is long since time these laws are struck down. The religious right are up in arms about freedom of religion...only when it suits them as this is every bit as much a...free exercise of religion, or not.

What say you ?

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ORIGINAL: Rule

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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers
What say you ?

Let's see:
1. Civilization of a kind started in Greece when Orpheus with his lyre convinced the savages in the forests to adopt the monogamous marriage.

2. The ancient Jews were polygamous. They got conquered by the monogamous Romans.

3. Muslims have polygamy. They also have six times more inherited diseases than do the monogamous Christians.

4. The monogamous European Christian peoples have for centuries been - and still are - the dominant civilization on Earth.

Umm, I rather think that I see a winning ticket...