polygamy

I'm splitting this off from the Anti-Muslim Terrorist Attack thread because I suspect it would be a sizable derail... For me, I'm against any marriages that are forced, Full stop. This includes monogamous ones in other religions, in which young girls can still be forced into marriage with...

When hearing debates about granting marriage to same sex couples (Something I'm firmly in favour of), I often hear "If you are redefining marriage, why not have polygamous ones?" from the conservative side. Now, for the record, I can't say I'm in favour of polygamous marriage, but at present I...

Can I assume I won't be seeing a reply to my previous post? Just to remind you: So two people who care about each other and wish to get married is "a vulgar mockery"; do you apply this standard to: Forcing women into marriage? Forcing women into marriage for the material gain of her...

I know this has been brought up before and I probably started a thread myself, but it seems like it's been a while, so here goes: Just came across this: How The TLC Show "Sister Wives" Makes Polygamy Seem Appealing Haven't seen the show myself, but it sounds interesting. A couple issues...

When arguing for the legal recognition of same-sex marriages, one often runs into a slippery-slope argument propped up by the opposition asserting that the recognition of same-sex marriages will inevitably lead to recognizing polygamous and polyandrous marriages. Most proponents simply point...

Doesn't a couple of days and some evidence-gathering make a difference to what looked like a cut-and-dried case of cult-wide abuse. Some relevant data in the meantime: The initial call was almost certainly a hoax by a woman with a long history of mental illness. No married women presently at...

As you all know the problem of polygamy (including forcing child brides into marriage) by members of the FLDS Church occasionally surfaces in the news. Recently this has surfaced in the news again as Texas has rescued over 400 children from a polygamy compound into children protective...

(I can't find another thread on this, which is surprising, but if I'm wrong, feel free to merge, mods.) Just your average Texas story. Fundamentalist polygamist Church of Latter Day Saints church forces teenage girls into marriage. Girl squeals. Feds bust in. Children removed. No violence so...

Yesterday on NPR, they were interviewing an "escapee" from one of the Arizona-based Mormon "fundamentalist" communities. These are the people who have split away from mainstream Mormonism to continue to practice polygamy, among other things. If you thought that the core beliefs of LDS were...

Interesting NYT article about the unusual number of teen boys driven from a polygamous sect in the southern Utah/northern Arizona region. This particular part struck me: Aside from all the other issues raised by this confluence of religion, marriage, abandonment, minors and sex, I thought there...

What do you think of it and why? If you don't know what it is, read http://www.xeromag.com/fvpoly.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyamory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygamy If discussing a religious pro or con perspective, please cite relevant verses to justify your claims.

It looks like Utah is finally starting to crack down. Steve S.

Often, caustic conservatives say that gay marriage advocates must, for consistency's sake, also endorse polygamy. For once, I agree with the caustic conservatives. If marriage is going to be redefined--broadened to include more than just one man and one woman--then there's really no reason to...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20060113/POLYGAMY13/TPNational/Canada The commission didn't recommend condoning polygamous marriages, nor requiring them to be performed, only that polygamy should no longer be a criminal offense in Canada. Given that the law is not...

I was wondering, as I often do, about the logistical issues involved in maintaining more than one wife. From what little research I have done on the topic (if the stirps_cannon is continued into the next centuries, it will not likely be by me) polygamy falls out of favor when women are given...