5/18: Polygamy

[jaguar]

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warthog, where do i start (please relaise you've caught me in a bad mood, I will regret this) For a start polygyny is open to abuse by people like green (If it was legal) becuase of the way these women were taken advantage, many polygynous relationships start like this, few from adult women. It is a continuation of the chauvanistic practise from the past called harem keeping, and is to one hell of alot of people dispiciable for very good reasons.

You are basing everything on the bible, the bible said this, the bible said that, well hate to break it to you but that bible is not what law is based on(phew), and not what everyone beleives (phew again). Law is based on the rational thinking and long debated thoughts of ellected officals in the best interest of the poeple who elected them (or so it SHOULD be).

Not on a many-times translated fictional novel with no factual basis.

Hate to bring religion into this but if you want to live your life round a book, good for you, i'm glad you have the blind faith to be able to do that(there are other words i could use but I will refrain). The bible is not a very easy book to defend, it makes its 'god' look so hypocritical that after a bit of analysis its like trying to keep water in a sieve. (read Mark Twains letters from earth?)

As both a Christian and as a Libertarian, I wish our government would just lay off and let plural marriages happen as they have for thousands of years (or more). In a time where we're starting to accept homosexual unions (something decidedly un-Christian) what is the harm in accepting what really is a more traditional model in polygyny?

Sorry but our mostly civilised and rational society is accepting homosexual unions because we finally realsie that that are as valid as loving caring couples as hetrosexual couples. And the fact the church frowns on the joining of two loving people, no matter their sex should have *zero* impact on that (unless curch followers make up the majority of the voters, after all a government must reflect its voters)

Secondly becuase somthing has happened for thousands of years dosen't make it somhow more vaild (torture, public executions, amny thousands of afflicitons, slavery etc)

For the record the reason Green was prosocuted is becuase he became so mdan high profice, he was in papers all over the world (including in all the major aussie ones) , they couldn't turn a blind eye to that the same way they turn a blind eye to all the other 50000, it is obviously part of the culture (moron home state i seem to recall).

The Old Testament is not exactly somthing i think any sane person would base thier life apon, mass murder, selling into slavery, and the worst of slaveries, protitution amoungst many other helinious crimes.

In the last 50-60 years we humans have gone out of our way to cut our ties to God, and for what? Single parent families, latchkey kids, school shootings.... shall I go on?

Where do i start.......

1: I find the diea that though such saying religious people are impying that peopel cannot do good without some diety standing over them with a big stick say no, now, do the right thing, kiss my butt for life and ill give you a good afterlife bloody insulting, i am capable of doing the right thing without that.

2: Gee, living under the rule of those who used god as a tool to remain in control was so wonderful wasen't it, women had no rights, there was half a million taboos, we lived in a world where thought was limited and thsoe who went outside that narrow relm were crucified (somtimes literally) (galiellio, darwin). But hey, those that believe in polygyny usually aren't too worried about womens rights either.

3: I am the child of a single aprent *gasp* hes obviously disfunctional, suicidal, homocidal, anti-social etc...What a pile of SHIT. *newsflash* plenty of fucked up kids come from happy, loving nuclear families, because its not the strucure, its the people that counts.

4: School shootings are the result of problems with SOCIETY, which have nothing to do with religion. I can list these problems and their causes if you really want.

who is the victim in a plural marriage

The women, and the children.

Think outside your square