Posted on 05/28/2012 2:46:46 PM PDT by Pinkbell
Joe Darger, from Salt Lake City, Utah, lives in a house with his three wives and their 24 children.
His polygamous marriage is illegal in 50 American states - and has resulted in him being excommunicated from the Mormon church.
But Joe, a fifth generation polygamist, believes his is the correct way - and says he wants to fight to have his plural marriage officially recognised by society.
The fundamentalist Mormon appeared on the breakfast television show alongside his three wives, 42-year-old twins Vicki and Valerie, and their 43-year-old cousin Alina.
Vicki and Alina have been married to Joe for 22 years after dating Joe simultaneously when they were just 18.
Vicki's twin sister Valerie was married to Joe 12 years ago after her own polygamous union - with a man who had six other wives - broke down.
And now, in an interview with Holly Willoughby and Philip Schofield, Joe and his wives, has defended their polygamous marriage as the 'oldest form of family'.
Answering Philip's question as to whether he hoped their plural union might one day be 'acceptable, mainstream, normal', Joe replied that while he never expects his polygamous marriage to be mainstream, he hopes one day it will be decriminalised.
'We want the same rights as anyone else would be afforded,' he said via live video link from Utah.
'Originally polygamy was part of the Mormon history, and that's what we still believe,' he says.
'Our story is about faith and family and freedom. In today's culture where family is being looked at, ours is one of the oldest forms of family out there.
'I don't know if we are looking to be accepted as mainstream, but certainly what we define as a family should be looked at as what society accepts as a family.'
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Ping!
Spot on!
What I would like to know is if any of the other ‘ wives” get welfare?
since they can’t be legally married to him they most likely qualify for all the benefits
the same thing happens when muslim men have more than one ‘ wife’ one is legal and the others rape our system
Here it goes. Once the definition of family is altered to accept one screaming group, anything and everything is fair game. VERY slippery slope.
Don’t Muslims already do that?
Not to mention men and women are born in approximately equal numbers. Polygamy ruins the chance for many men to have wives.
The guy was born with the polygamy gene. That makes him like a homosexual. Maybe Obama can come out in support of polygamy, and allow it in the military.
True. I’ve read and seen in documentaries that in some of the big polygamous groups, the “excess” boys are tossed out because they aren’t needed. They’re called “the lost boys.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_boys_(Mormon_fundamentalism)
If God intended polygamy, then the ratio of women to men would be much higher in order to give men multiple wives, but that is not so. This indicates God intended for marriage to be with one man and one woman.
That’s polyphobia!!!!!!/sarc
I’m speechless even though I saw this coming a mile away.
So does forced abortion/infanticide of female babies like in China.
I can’t help but wonder if this article is a ‘round about way to get in a dig at Romney.
f a woman can murder her baby in the womb because it is her body, why cant she marry a man who already has a wife.
Afterall they are consenting adults free to do whatever they want.
Up next, consanguinity.
This is what the left is champing at the bit to throw at FUMR.
And it’s as perfectly legit for this guy to ask about his own marriage preferences to be recognized by government as for two gays, or three or four gays, or two guys and a goat etc to ask for a marriage certificate for their spousal combo.
I imagine Obama’s view of polygamy is evolving. All this guy needs is a rainbow flag, and the far left will rally behind him - especially if his extra wives are on welfare.
Wow - the wives are sorta hot.
I was expecting Jerry Springer guests.
Medical Dictionary
polyphobia pol·y·pho·bi·a (pŏl'ĭ-fō'bē-ə)
n. An abnormal fear of many things; a condition marked by the presence of many phobias.
Maybe we can use the term "polygaphobia?" I know you said that in jest, but the truth is, you just know it's coming with our PC culture.
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