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To: Lurker; Colofornian
How consenting adults order their lives, as long as no force or fraud is involved, or direct harm comes to others, is absolutely none of the Governments business.

Nor is it any of yours.

The FLDS fiasco showed that there is plenty of fraud involved in plural marriages, it's just difficult to prove. Most if not all of those plural wives were receiving lots of federal and state benefits because they were legally unmarried mothers with no income. A man with 6 wives and 12-15 children by them has a whole heap of welfare checks and food stamps, plus medical benefits galore. All of that makes it "my business".

The Dugger family down in Arkansas with one wife and one husband and 20 or so kids is none of my business because they receive no tax payer dollars.

Aside from that angle, immorality is a concern for me. I'm against it for our country as a whole. Take a look around you at what our country has degenerated to. It can all be traced to disobedience to God's laws. Yes, it's my business.

It says right on F.R.s home page what this site is about, God, family, country, conservatism. The very reasons I'm here, to express opinions about these things.

19 posted on 12/30/2011 8:46:27 AM PST by Graybeard58 (No Obama, No Romney, No Paul, No Huntsman. We can do better than that!)
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To: Graybeard58
A man with 6 wives and 12-15 children by them has a whole heap of welfare checks and food stamps, plus medical benefits galore.

Do you have any evidence that this particular group is receiving any of those benefits?

My solution, of course, would be to end those 'benefits' entirely. But that's for another thread I suppose.

22 posted on 12/30/2011 9:05:32 AM PST by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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