Re: OT - This just in...

From: Eliyahu Rooff (lrooff_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/10/04 

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 10:09:22 -0700

"RaeMorrill" <raemorrill@aol.com.com> wrote in message
news:20040909212310.07582.00000446@mb-m11.aol.com...
> >Where your premise falls short is the Mormons that still take
more than one
> >wife, collect welfare, give their daughters to their brothers and
nephews and
> >no one seems to do anything about it.
>
> Well, maybe unless they made mistake of going on Springer! I think
pleural
> marriage is ridiculous.

I'm inclined to think that my own lung problems are more due to
allergies and asthma than to marriage... :-)

That's personal. I'm not sharing my man (at least not
> unless I get another man or two to sleep with when #1 is too
tired.

OTOH, consider the advantages of not having to worry about fixing
dinner when you've got a ton of tapes to transcribe and the computer
keeps crashing, and having someone else to talk to about your
frustrations with DH when he's getting on your nerves... :-)

However, if
> this was a true belief of the Mormon church, they should not have
knuckled
> under. The govt had no right to take that from them. They allow
people to kill
> their children by refusing medical treatment in the name of
religion,

I think you're confusing them with some other religions in that
respect.

pleural
> marriage pales. However, they should NOT be allowed to write off
all those
> wives and kids on their taxes.
>
Why not? If someone with one wife and ten kids can take deductions
for them, why not someone with two wives and nine kids? The math
comes out pretty much the same. If someone is enough of a masochist
to take on two wives at once, that's his own burden to bear.

Eliyahu

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