Re: OT - This just in...

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

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 10:15:36 -0700

"LizzieB" <blahblah@blahblahblah.com> wrote in message
news:Rx70d.24041$6h7.3180@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com...
> JMorngstar wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> First, Mormons do not take more than one wife. People who have
been
> excommunicated from the church for polygamy, who still consider
> themselves and call themselves Mormons, are the people to whom you
are
> referring.
>
> Second, because the additional marriages are not recognized by the
> state, the "extra" wives collect welfare on the premise they are
single
> mothers (which I think is absolutely abhorrent and so completely
> hypocritical as to my my eyeballs cross and my teeth grind).
>
> Third, they *are* prosecuted--perhaps not to the extent that we
would
> like them to be, but they are.
>
> Fourth, this is an example of a slippery slope. So what if people
want
> more than one wife? If we can have legal same-sex marriage, why
can't
> we have legal polygamy? I see no difference, as it's all civil
union
> anyway.
>
Okay, why can't we? Islam allows it. Sephardic Judaism has never
banned it, and the Ashkenazic Judaism ban actually expired about a
decade ago. Even in Christianity, the scriptural requirement that a
deacon be "the husband of one wife" seems to imply that a non-deacon
could have more than one. Most people would be quite satisfied with
a "conventional" marriage, with one husband and one wife, so it's
not as if we'd suddenly be overrun with huge harems in every home on
the block. I'm far more troubled by marriages where the partners
abuse each other, cheat on each other, scream and yell back and
forth all the time, and make life miserable for everyone around
them, finally calling it quits after a year or two.

Eliyahu

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