Why Are So Many Cool With Polygamy?

World Net Daily ^ | 3-23-12 | Bob Unruh

[ReformationFan]

Polygamy has had very little support in the U.S. since the Republican Party in 1854 declared it, along with slavery, one of the “twin relics of barbarism,” and Congress banned it in 1862. The Mormon church officially abandoned plural marriage in 1890.

But when the California Supreme Court ruled in 2010 in favor of homosexual marriage, one dissenting justice warned that it would not be illogical to expect that support for polygamy soon would follow.

In fact, a polygamous group in Utah just last month challenged a ban on the practice in court, and now a new WND/Wenzel Poll, conducted exclusively for WND by the public-opinion research and media consulting company Wenzel Strategies, indicates there is a surprisingly high level of support developing across the U.S.

A full 22 percent of the respondents say there is no legal justification for denying polygamy, based on the fact that legislation and judicial decisions have affirmed the validity of same-sex “marriage” for homosexuals.

[Abathar]

The mere thought of a twin dose of mother-in-law like I have now is enough to make sure the marriage would never be consummated, without some duct tape and popsicle sticks that is...

[Abathar]

"If gays and lesbians can marry that creates an imbalance in the gender numbers which opens up the possibility of the free floaters to be added on to the family unit. "

Pfft, homo marriage is a tiny drop in a huge bucket called selective abortion being practiced in places around the world now.

When places start getting to 60/40 gender inequality like is happening in India and China the incredible social pressure cooker they have created for themselves is gonna blow, and it isn't going to be pretty when it does.

[newgeezer]

Why Are So Many Cool With Polygamy?

That's easy. They are of the opinion that it's no one else's business what consenting adults do with each other.

And, if it wasn't for the fact that governments meddle in everything nowadays, including redistributing wealth based on marriage status, I might be persuaded to agree with that sentiment.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I couldn’t afford another wife so this is moot to me.

I once knew a Pakistani Muslim who explained to me at length that Islam allowed men to have up to four wives, and all of the various historical reasons for that.

Then he rolled his eyes at me and said "Of course, a man would have to be totally insane to actually try it!"

[Jack Hydrazine]

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[freebird5850]

I couldn’t afford another wife so this is moot to me.

A very wise man once said, "A man who has not had two wives has never had two wives"!

[Zakeet]

Polygamy has had very little support in the U.S. since the Republican Party in 1854 declared it, along with slavery, one of the “twin relics of barbarism,” and Congress banned it in 1862. The Mormon church officially abandoned plural marriage in 1890. ... In fact, a polygamous group in Utah just last month challenged a ban on the practice in court.

POLYGAMY IS A HIDEOUS PRACTICE

Male teens are frequently dumped on the streets of places like Salt Lake City by polygamous Mormon sects because there aren't enough females to go around. Over 400 abandoned young men are kept by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in one school in Salt Lake City alone. When they graduate from high school, they are unceremoniously discarded back onto the streets. You can read more about this HERE.

Perhaps worse is the fate awaiting the girls. They are taken from their homes as teens (some as young as 14 or 15) and given as wives to men in their 50's to essentially serve as breed stock in order to call home spirit babies. You can read more about this HERE and HERE.

Polygamy is an embarrassment to modern Mormonism, in part because of:

1. The terrible effect polygamy has on people.

2. The teaching polygamy was essential to progress to the highest levels of godhood and this practice would never end.

   For behold, I reveal unto you a new and an everlasting covenant; and if ye abide not that covenant, then are ye damned; for no one can reject this covenant and be permitted to enter into my glory. (D&C 132:4,21)

3. The obvious contradiction caused by condemnation of polygamy in other Mormon scripture.

   Behold, David and Solomon truly had many wives and concubines, which thing was abominable before me, saith the Lord. (BoM Jacob 2:24)

4. The exposition of Mormonism's prophet, Joseph Smith, as a serial statutory rapist (eleven of Smith's wives were between ages 14 and 20), a swinger (11 of Smith's wives were married and cohabiting with their husbands, while married to Smith), and a liar (Smith repeatedly denied he engaged in polygamy).

5. The exposition of the Mormon Church as liars and vacillators as they denied-affirmed and prohibited-commanded-prohibited polygamy.

6. The Mormon Church abandoned polygamy only after the U.S. Government disincorporated the Church and ordered its property seized. This raises the troubling trilemma of whether: (a) Mormonism's god was stupid and/or wrong when he proclaimed polygamy was everlasting, or (b) Joseph Smith was a false prophet when he received this revelation, or (c) the Church's current leaders are false prophets by placing material gain and political expediency ahead of divine revelation.

You should note that polygamy was never abandoned by the Utah Mormon Church. They agreed to stop practicing it among the living in 1890; they stopped secretly entering into polygamous marriages in 1923; they stopped prosecuting persons who enter into polygamous marriages in 1952; they openly teach that polygamy will be practiced in the afterlife; dozens of breakaway Mormon sects openly practice polygamy at this very time. You can read more about the history of Mormonism and polygamy HERE.

Finally, it may be interesting to NOTE Bishop Mitt Romney's great-great grandfather, Parley Pratt, was a notorious polygamist with 12 wives. Pratt was eventually gunned down in Arkansas by a man angry at Parley for stealing his wife and trying to abduct his children.

[vetvetdoug]

I can’t even get one. What the hell would I do with two?

[Vendome]

I want to marry my Jackass.

I have a thing for long faces....

[Bruinator]

Jack already has someone wanting to marry his bacon

[SZonian]

IF a “revelation” had been given to the so-called prophet at the time, then D&C section 132 should have been removed from their canon.

That it hasn’t and is still part of mormon scripture, everything the mormon church claims about “renouncing polygamy” is suspect.

[EternalVigilance]

"Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time...They therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure and which insures to the good eternal happiness, are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments." -- Charles Carroll, U.S. Senator and signer of the Declaration of Independence

"[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few." -- John Adams, An Essay on Man's Lust for Power, 1763

“Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of Men and Citizens.” -- George Washington

"My principle is to do whatever is right and leave the consequences to Him who has the disposal of them." -- Thomas Jefferson to George Logan, 1813

"Peace, prosperity, liberty and morals have an intimate connection." -- Thomas Jefferson to George Logan, 1813

“There remains the one standard that has not yet been universally used, namely, the choosing of candidates on moral grounds. A nation always gets the kind of politicians it deserves. When our moral standards are different, our legislation will be different. As long as the decent people refuse to believe that morality must manifest itself in every sphere of human activity, including the political, they will not meet the challenge of Marxism. Contemporary history proves that modern political leaders, devoid of a moral inspiration and relying solely on a mass basis (might makes right), proves ineffectual in time of crisis." -- Fulton Sheen, “COMMUNISM and the CONSCIENCE of the WEST” -1948

[In Maryland]

"What the hell would I do with two?"

The same as you would do with one ... retire to the nearest public house when they start to talk!

[In Maryland]

"I want to marry my Jackass."

Sorry, I don't think the First Lady will share.

[USAF80]

I once knew a Pakistani Muslim who explained to me at length that Islam allowed men to have up to four wives, and all of the various historical reasons for that. Then he rolled his eyes at me and said "Of course, a man would have to be totally insane to actually try it!"

I knew only two in Saudi Arabia that had two or more wives. One was Saudi in their Air Force and the other was an American Muslim. The stipulation is that they cannot live in the same house and you have to provide equally for all. No wild orgies I'm afraid.

If you buy one a Mercedes you have to buy one for the other wives too.

You could always tell the men with two wives because they had double houses that were mirror images of each other. You did not see too many of these though.

[fishtank]

Pro-Abortion Basturd (sic) Rmoney 2002 YouTube video

Willard McBush WANTS polygamy in the afterlife. It makes him no different from practicing it NOW.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The stipulation is that they cannot live in the same house and you have to provide equally for all. No wild orgies I'm afraid.

Didn't OBL have three or four wives living in that house when they shot him?

[Scoutmaster]

Pratt was eventually gunned down in Arkansas by a man angry at Parley for stealing his wife and trying to abduct his children.

Shot in the neck in Arkansas by Hector McLean, after McLean stabbed him with a Bowie knife. That's after Pratt convinced McLean's wife, Elenor, to leave McLean and their three children in San Francisco, and to go with Pratt to Salt Lake City, where she became Pratt's 12th wife.

McLean traced her (and sometimes Pratt) to New Orleans, then Houston, then Fort Gibson, Arkansas, near Van Buren. McLean and two friends (James Cornell and Amasa Howell) caught up with Parley Pratt outside of Van Buren, near Alma, Arkansas, and killed Pratt there.

But I digress. Elenor fled to Salt Lake City to tell of Pratt's murder in Arkansas. I guess it was a murder, technically. Some historians believe vengeance against Arkansas - from whence the Fancher party hailed - was a factor in the Mountain Meadows Massacre a few months later.

[teeman8r]

Also, multiple wives means multiple mothers-in-law

not if you marry sisters...

ugh...

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[Scoutmaster]

trying to abduct his children.

Left that out, didn't I? I don't know that Pratt did. Elenor McLean certainly tried to get her children eventually. Elenor McLean left the children in San Francisco when she initially ran off with Pratt (I guess I should say Parley Pratt, given the prominence of both Parley Pratt and Orson Pratt in the early Mormon church). Hector McLean sent the children to relatives in New Orleans. Elenor claimed she had left Parley Pratt and Mormonism and was allowed to visit by the relatives. She took the children and Pratt joined her as they headed to Houston. Without doing some reading, I don't remember if she was still in Houston when Parley Pratt was killed, or was with Pratt in Arkansas. Perhaps the latter, because she returned to Salt Lake City immediately after Parley Pratt's death.