The problem, you see, is that they don’t do it the American way. One at a time.
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Sheesh. And who is Beck to have something to say about polygamy, anyway?
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Is he Mormon???!!!
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Yup.
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Which means he’s got a LOT to say about polygamy since the Mormons are officially against it ad very sensitive about it since giving it up was one of the demands by the US government to stop exterminating them…and no, that’s a simplification but not an exaggeration.
On the other hand, speaking as a polygamist, BOTH Muslims and those Mormon off-shoots who practice it make my family’s life that much harder by feeding into the stereotype which is frankly despicable.
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From what I’ve read they still practice it, even right in Salt Lake City. You can tell because their houses look odd–they have multiple front doors, since each wife gets her own entrance.
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You’ve read wrong and that second door is the “preacher’s door” – a hold-over from earlier times when one door led into the formal parlor and the other to the family spaces.
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That’s what’s so odd about them–sometimes a house will have three or four “front doors”–and you can see them right from the street. But the authorities never take any action.
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@jonolan
Polygamist??? I find it so much easier just being a polyamorist. 🙂
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Too much socio-political baggage is associated with that term for my taste and my family’s behavior better matches the term, polygamy than polyamory.
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So this is what we’re scared of now…harems??
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Sounds like at least one commenter isn’t scared of them 😉
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I have to admit, I’m perfectly fine with harems being the “slippery slope” consequence of gay marriage….
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In a way I’ll say me too brat . . . I don’t know any polygamists (other than our friend jonolan) but I’m not particularly bothered by the idea. I’m much more offended by the suppression of women on religious grounds which is all over fundamentalist Christianity.
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Poly relationships are messy and complicated…just like monogamous relationships. As long as nobody is being forced into doing anything against their will, I’m cool with it.
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Just as long as gay harems are permitted–we gotta have equality…
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Apparently historical study of harems shows that they encouraged gay behavior–or at least lesbian behavior–so we got no problems there…
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I guess people here pointed out that we have American’s with
NUMEROUS….
Wives here…Right?
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Newt! Rush! The Donald! Don’t you love how these people always preach at us james?
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Serially monogamous!
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Perfectly phrased bruce. Perfect.
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…scientifically accurately phrased as well. 😉 It’s also, in biological / sociological circles known as the Male Compromise Theory.
Of course, then one has to differentiated between Social Monogamy and Sexual Monogamy. Given our history, that’s a very important distinction since many, many many people are socially monogamous – they exhibit all outwards signs of a pair-bonded couple – but are NOT sexually monogamous, i.e., our long-running infidelity rates.
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