Polygamy?

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What do you think about polygamy as an option? Afterall, two large relgions are rather positive towards it: Mormonism (although they have back-peddled some in recent decades) and Muslims (up to four). I think it may be sensible as a way to cut down on guys and girls just living together rather than getting married.
 
Polygamy may be accepted by Islam and Mormonism, but it’s not accepted by the Catholic Church.
 
the way you describe it we already have it. ever watch “Friends” sluts in the city, reality TV?
 
Polygamy should not be taken so lightly. It’s a very serious situation. My Aunt Marie was married in the 1940’s to a man. After she got pregnant, she found out that he already had another wife and family. She was in no where land because she couldn’t really get divorced since he was never free to enter into marriage in the first place. She moved back in with her parents. But it was a source of shame and despair for her. Her daughter grew up with only a “sometimes” father. And I don’t think he ever supported her. When he died, they couldn’t even go to the funeral. The other family would not allow it. He hurt two families because of his selfishness.
 
I don’t see how polygamy would cut down on people living together out of wedlock. Polygamy is degrading to women, simple as that. The fact that it’s endorsed by Mormonism and Islam is no credit to it, in fact, given the track record of those two religions, it just discredits polygamy even more.
 
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FelixBlue:
What do you think about polygamy as an option? Afterall, two large relgions are rather positive towards it: Mormonism (although they have back-peddled some in recent decades) and Muslims (up to four). I think it may be sensible as a way to cut down on guys and girls just living together rather than getting married.
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I mean no offense, but that’s a silly statement.

You think this is a way to cut down on guys and girls just living together… how? And why would someone unwilling to enter into a monogamous marriage somehow be willing to enter into a polygamous marriage, with all the other trappings of marriage, til death do they part, etc.? Just what do you think the purpose of marriage is, exactly? A sacramental union of man and woman, or a convenient cohabitation arrangement?

Please elucidate us with your thought process behind this brilliant statement.
 
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Oh Lord, one is enough !
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HEY! just kidding. that was funny 😉 poligamy treats women like cattle, there is a poligamy colony in Arizona i believe where girls are FORCED into marriage at 13 pregnant at 14 and have five kids by 20! thats horrible and its child molestation, poligamy in any form is abuse towards women. besides i agree with the Barrister, ( i know shocking isnt it:eek: ) how is that going to change people living together? i live with my fiance (only after we were engaged for four months) and i guarantee you that if there were another woman, i would do my best, to make his world a living hell! ( againJK) its a silly statement. may i ask though do you believe in polygamy? also the Koran (i’ve studied it) also teaches that you should beat your wife daily. and mormons are a little different anyway. my friend couldnt even go to his brothers wedding, because he wasnt allowed in the church because he left the faith. thats not very Christian to me. please excuse my scattered thoughts im still on my first cup of coffee.
 
I am reading “Under the Banner of Heaven” right now. It is quite fascinating to learn about how prevalant the groups who pratice plural marriage really are. Quite sick if you ask me. The book even makes note of how Joseph Smith was a frequent customer of houses of ill repute. He was quoted as saying one time that plural marriage was good because it kept a man from lusting after a woman other than his wife. He figured if you just married the other woman then that would make it okay to have sex with her, thereby eliminating adultery. Anyway, I would recommend the book to anyone interested in the history of the Mormon church. It is quite scary.
 
There is another thing happening in polygamist relationships. I read about this on a Pa. homeschooling message board.

Because there is competition for females, the males in the “family” are sometimes kicked out and abandoned when they hit puberty.

Mary
 
Polygamy, of course, occurs in more than one form. There’s polygyny, a man taking more than one wife, and polyandry, where a woman takes more than one husband. Polygyny is much more common than polyandry.
 
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