Polygamy: The Next Marriage Rights Frontier!

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Edward777

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Check this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erTwhTCAAss&feature=youtu.be

For the life of me I cannot understand why the state has the right to tell consenting adults they cannot practice polygamy. The Bible does not condemn it, the Koran does not condemn it and Darwinism would certainly not condemn it. Maybe it is time to let people live as they like. Again, the video features an interview with an anthropologist who has studied polygamy today. Her findings are quite interesting.
 
I have no problem with any contracts between consenting adults and feel the government should have no involvement unless there is a breach of contract with no other possible ways to arbitrate the issue. I much prefer contracts to include arbitration clauses which exclude government involvement.
 
Who said you can't be a polygamist. We have had them in AZ for years. I never understood it and I think it has to do with power. Male and female domination. Polygamy is fine for a generation or two but they seem to destroy young men in their societies.
 
American conservatives should argue for the adoption of Israel's system, where marriage is completely the domain of religious authorities, the state has no part in it.

A wedding ceremony between a Muslim and a Jew is simply not possible in Israel, and nobody seems to accuse them of discrimination and racism. Go figure...
 
JCDenton0451 said:
American conservatives should argue for the adoption of Israel's system, where marriage is completely the domain of religious authorities, the state has no part in it.

A wedding ceremony between a Muslim and a Jew is simply not possible in Israel, and nobody seems to accuse them of discrimination and racism. Go figure...
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Yeah segregation is big in Israel all together. To be fair though it isn't discrimination because they hate everyone it seems equally. They have killed Americans as well.
 
JCDenton0451 said:
American conservatives should argue for the adoption of Israel's system, where marriage is completely the domain of religious authorities, the state has no part in it.
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How about NOBODY have "authority" in such matters, save the parties thereto? Religious "authority" is no different from any other. It is only that if you say it is... unless you live under tyranny and they impose it upon you under threat of bodily injury.

We are either free or we are something else.
 
talkingpointes said:
Yeah segregation is big in Israel all together. To be fair though it isn't discrimination because they hate everyone it seems equally. They have killed Americans as well.
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This point seems to be lost on the American left. Most of them have a very favourable view of the Jewish state overall. So, if conservatives started openly campaigning for the Israeli model, it would put American liberals in a real conundrum.
 
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Because the DOMA says marriage is between one man and one woman. The evangelicals would have a cow. There is the welfare issue. Beyond that..meh.
 
Seems like a good place to repost.

http://dailyanarchist.com/2013/04/01/no-right-to-marry/

The “marriage equality” advocates don’t fair much better in my opinion. They start with the principles that marriage is a right, and equality is a right, so everyone should have equal right to marry. Sounds good, but after just a little bit of pressing they don’t usually support marriage equality for polygamous marriages, polyamorous marriages, incestuous marriages, or any other bizarre constellation consenting adults configure themselves in. Bring up those topics and they immediately begin echoing the rhetoric of the “traditional marriage” advocates.
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Carlybee said:
Because the DOMA says marriage is between one man and one woman. The evangelicals would have a cow. There is the welfare issue. Beyond that..meh.
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DOMA is going the way of the dodo bird eventually. Evangelicals should jump on polygamy as a poison pill. It will piss off (some) feminist. And yes, it will but further strains on the welfare state. Make the thing collapse on itself sooner rather than later.
 
Sola_Fide said:
The next marriage rights frontier is pedophilia.
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Huge difference between consenting adults entering polygamy and pedophillia. And I would note that the Bible is pro-polygamy although the Catholic Church decided long ago that the foundational concepts of the Old Testament would not fit the Roman Pagan legal code so it forbad polygamy. Martin Luther pointed out that polygamy is not condemned anywhere in the Bible.

Again, the interview with the anthropologist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erTwhTCAAss

I would urge libertarian-minded people to listen to what she has to say and forward this talk to friends.
 
There are very few exemplar marriages in the Bible that are not polygamous...
 
JCDenton0451 said:
This point seems to be lost on the American left. Most of them have a very favourable view of the Jewish state overall. So, if conservatives started openly campaigning for the Israeli model, it would put American liberals in a real conundrum.
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What?

Liberals are far more likely to criticize Israel. Why the bullshit?
 
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