Report: "Massachusetts Town Legalizes Polygamy Using Same Arguments For Gay Marriage,"

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I probably will get piled on but from the time that I first learned of the LDS abandoning their belief in polygamy in order to become a state, I felt it was wrong to ban it. I believe polygamy is wrong. I felt that it made a law against religious belief and therefore unconstitutional. Yes I know that it was up held but I disagreed with that ruling. There are many problems to allowing more than one spouse at a time. If this becomes a national law, it should be written into it that in order to take more spouses each spouse must be aware and agree. Otherwise it would be a crime punishable by prison. One thing that might come of this is the end of divorce. Why divorce if you can just marry someone else without it?
 
You think polyamory means the end of divorce? 🤣🤣🤣

HOW are they going to do polyamorous divorces? Divide the assets five ways? How will they decide child support, and child custody?
Imagine all the resulting “modification of custody” hearings…💫
 
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You can’t be serious.
Gee, why would a person suffering spousal abuse get a divorce; the abuser can just marry somebody else. Then the abuse gets halved. Problem solved.

Gee, why would a person whose spouse’s addictions are causing them and the children to be in danger of eviction, in danger of being harmed by drunk driving, etc., bother to get a divorce? The addicted spouse could just marry somebody else. Then there’s more people involved who could get hurt. . .

Sarcasm off, but apparently you thought the only reason a person would get divorced was that they ‘fell out of love’ with one person and ‘into love’ with another, and gee if only the THREE could just be agreeable all would be hunky dory no-divorce land. And that’s just. . .crazy.
 
27lw said:
You think polyamory means the end of divorce?
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No, but divorce is not the end of the world. A friendly divorce is much more preferable than to be stuck in a bad, loveless relationship.

The technical questions of asset sharing and distribution can be difficult. So what?
 
Abrosz said:
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27lw:
You think polyamory means the end of divorce?
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No, but divorce is not the end of the world. A friendly divorce is much more preferable than to be stuck in a bad, loveless relationship.

The technical questions of asset sharing and distribution can be difficult. So what?
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Why do you post things on a Catholic forum that are against Catholic morality and teaching?
I call you out on that.
 
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27lw said:
Why do you post things on a Catholic forum that are against Catholic morality and teaching?
I call you out on that.
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Maybe you would prefer only to talk to people whose views mirror your own? I prefer to listen to people, whose ideas are different from mine. Maybe I can learn some new ideas.
 
Abrosz said:
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27lw:
Why do you post things on a Catholic forum that are against Catholic morality and teaching?
I call you out on that.
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Maybe you would prefer only to talk to people whose views mirror your own? I prefer to listen to people, whose ideas are different from mine. Maybe I can learn some new ideas.
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Are you listening? Or spouting your own anti-Catholic opinions? Some people come on here to discuss topics with other Catholics, not just anybody with a “garden variety” secular opinion that can be found anywhere.
 
27lw said:
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Abrosz:
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27lw:
You think polyamory means the end of divorce?
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No, but divorce is not the end of the world. A friendly divorce is much more preferable than to be stuck in a bad, loveless relationship.

The technical questions of asset sharing and distribution can be difficult. So what?
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Why do you post things on a Catholic forum that are against Catholic morality and teaching?
I call you out on that.
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To be fair to Abrosz, there are quite a few views expressed within this forum by Catholics which do not align with Catholic morality. That someone who isn’t a Catholic expresses views which don’t match yours is hardly surprising.

And as long as he expresses them respectfully (and I’ve never seen him being disrespectful) then we should all welcome disparate views.
 
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You don’t really address what I said or maybe I wasn’t clear. If you could have multiple spouses, why would you go to the trouble of a divorce?

@stpurl
again you too are not really addressing what I wrote or you misunderstood or I wasn’t clear. I never said why a person would get a divorce. What is the purpose of a divorce? I don’t mean the reasons but the purpose if not to remarry?
 
There is wisdom in this poem -
No man is an island,
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thy friend’s
Or of thine own were:
Any man’s death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind,
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.

John Donne, ~1600
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fide said:
There is wisdom in this poem
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There is indeed, vide.

So on the assumption that there are marriages in the US that have one man and more than one woman (possibly African and/or Muslim), please tell us how one of these marriages affects you in any way.
 
Did you not read the poem?

Any man’s death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind,
 
When children are raised in such marriages, they’re worse off than in a traditional marriage.
Also, can the USA afford to pay benefits to more than one spouse per person? Let’s say a Muslim man has two, three or four wives. Let’s say that’s twelve children. How well is this man supporting his children / wives / households? What if he were to die – how would the US pay those survivors benefits / Medicare etc on a large scale?

https://www.reddit.com/r/polyamory/comments/8jduk1/health_insurance_for_poly_families

 
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fide said:
Did you not read the poem?

Any man’s death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind,
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I wouldn’t take these lines literally, fide. Questions asked previously were concerned with actual, practical problems that society might face because of marriages with three people.

Actually that should read ‘does face’ because we have those marriages now.

Any ideas?
 
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Sort of an “it’s the economy, stupid” politics? I see no life in that box. It’s too little! The human person is much bigger than that. But I am not looking to disrupt. I was just passing through. Excuse me…
 
No problem. And thanks for the poem. Haven’t read it for a long time.
 
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27lw:
Why do you post things on a Catholic forum that are against Catholic morality and teaching?
I call you out on that.
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He is entitled to express an opinion.
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For sure, but these folks who don’t agree with basic Catholic teaching just bog down the discussion with fights over basic Catholic teaching. It’s a Catholic forum, so why do we have to argue basic Catholic teaching here?
 
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27lw said:
It’s a Catholic forum, so why do we have to argue basic Catholic teaching here?
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Either ask the management to deny access to non-catholics, or view the opportunity for what it is. If neither of those options appeal, you needn’t respond to every post.
 
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27lw:
It’s a Catholic forum, so why do we have to argue basic Catholic teaching here?
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Either ask the management to deny access to non-catholics, or view the opportunity for what it is. If neither of those options appeal, you needn’t respond to every post.
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