Interview With Polygamist Winston Blackmore

CNN ^ | December 8, 2006 | Larry King Live

[Bushwacker777]

"CALLER: Hello. Mr. Blackmore, do any of your wives work?

BLACKMORE: Just about all of them do.

KING: They all do?

BLACKMORE: Yes.

KING: And while they're working, who's watching the kids?

BLACKMORE: Well, they take -- they take turns. I mean, there's nurses; there's schoolteachers. There's some going to school to become, you know...

KING: Do you ever gather with all of them?

BLACKMORE: As often as we can.

KING: With all the wives?

BLACKMORE: Yes.

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[LauraleeBraswell]

Other than marriage should be between a man and a woman

"Many women with ambition and high IQs have to choose between career and family (at least they think they do) and maybe this sort of family model could solve that problem"


Or he could just father eighty children with twenty women and pay child support. But think about it, How does one man financially support all those children? It's financially draining. The wives all have to work anyway. A group of single mothers could get together and do the same thing. This doesn't solve anything.

Also this the type of family system you would want to build a country on?

Another issue with polygamous sects is the competition for eligible women. It causes allot of problems. The woman to man population ratio is 1:1, when you exclude the fact that elderly women live longer than men. As competition for wives increases, boys are often cast out of the community.

[LauraleeBraswell]

If Polygomy is fine then what do you think about gay marriage?

[LauraleeBraswell]

"Most American men are polygamists. Only they do it one wife at a time."

Actually no. The divorce rate is so high because of serial divorcees. Most couples who get married stay married. If a man marries and divorces twice, that's two divorces compared with a couple who stays married (0 divorces).

[LauraleeBraswell]

In a hostile world where invading tribes could attack at any time polygamy was a way to protect your people, preserve your culture and boost population. And because many men were killed in wars and many women died in childbirth, it was necessary if you wanted many descendent's to carry on.

Different World.

[Mark Felton]

ok. The point remains though. a very large percentage of American men practice the next to worst form of polygamy. A smaller, but large, proportion of men practice the worst form, impregnating multiple women while never assuming any responsibility whatsoever.

BYW: It is only ilegal because of a document. It' interesting that a man could cohabitate with 100 women if he chose and have children with all of them, quite legally, as long as he didn;t try to marry them.

[Mark Felton]

Legal "marriage" is a government program to give traditional families an advantage, children and spouses, in the tax and legal system. It forms a contract and is designed to encourage and boost traditional families because they are beneficial (essential) to society.

We have all kinds of government programs that engage in social engineering for "targeted" members of our society.

Marriage should remain exclusively for traditional families (2 parents (opposite sex), with or wihout children)

Homosexual couples should never recieve marriage status. They are destructive to society.

Homosexual couples are free to cohabitate. They can establish living wills for each other (to assign medical decision responsibilities). They can write wills to pass on assets. They do recieve equal treatment under the laws.

They do not need the "procreation promotion program" (marriage). it is ludicrous and also a good example of the tyranny of the anti-Christians that this ever became a consideration.