[JohnHuang2]

Friday, July 4, 2003

Quote of the Day by Cicero

[friendly]

The bizarre activist "logic" of the Supreme Court makes a strong case for the polygamists.

And liberals (who will do anything in their evil power to destroy America) will support the polygamists in the strangest political marraige in our history.

[Nightshift]

PING

[fporretto]

While the mind reels at the idea that a woman of our times would accept being merely one of a number of wives to one man, consider this:

• The man could have many live-in girlfriends.
• All such relationships, whether sexual or not, would be entirely legal in all 50 states. No laws are being broken.
• If one of the women got pregnant, in most states the man's legal obligations to her and the baby would be the same as if he'd married her.
• If one of the women took up with another man, the man would not have any legal recourse, since there's no marital contract to enforce.
• There's now "case law" on the books in most states that has effectively revived the old common-law marital bond; if the man were to cast out one of the women, in any of those states she could sue him for "palimony" -- and if he were wealthy enough to maintain such a harem in the first place, she'd probably get it.

Looks to me as if the man is the crazy one for entertaining this arrangement. More, there is absolutely no way in which it gets worse -- for anyone -- if this one man / many women arrangement is permitted to marry!

There are surely other things that are more worth our time and attention.

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
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[Noachian]

How does this SCOTUS ruling effect the Mormons in Utah?

A guy got sent to jail last year (I think it was) because of polygamy laws in Utah. The guy wasn't hurting anyone, and the only mistake the guy made was marrying the women instead of shacking up with them.

I think one of the conditions of statehood for Utah was that they had to drop their religious support for polygamy, which had nothing to do with Constitutional law.

On the other hand can a feminist professional, in a high-rise condo in New York, legally practice polyandry?

[randog]

"Polygamy is the next civil-rights battle."

Take a ticket and get in line.

[Wrigley]

Polygamy ping

[TheDon]

"If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual [gay] sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything."

Sen. Rick Santorum

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/900757/posts

[restornu]

As LDS many of us too are as concern about this latest ruling from the courts.

In the last couple of days in the NYC news all kinds of mini havoc is breaking out!

White power left in the subway car looking like Amtacks and tell the MTA to go to hell.

A plane crashes close to a refinery in NJ

20 fires have been started when folks are asleep in Wash. D,C, it seem the house is laced with gas and than set a frie so far none have lost their life!

It is sad the nation is losing because of the enemy with in.

[jwalsh07]

Here they come!

Happy Independence Day guys.

[SauronOfMordor]

Look for Muslims to bring a case to court, arguing that laws against polygamy unduly constrict their religious rights

[johnb838]

I really don't see how, if there's a constitutional right for a man to stick his penis in another man's anus, there can not be a right to polygamy as well, as long as its private and consensual. Nor prostitution. In fact, I don't see how the state can interfere with me if I want to privately grow pot in my bedroom.

[dighton]

One cannot eat breakfast all day,
Nor is it the act of a sinner,
When breakfast is taken away,
To turn his attention to dinner.
And it's not in the range of belief,
To look upon him as a glutton,
Who, when he is tired of beef,
Determines to tackle the mutton.
But this I am willing to say,
If it will appease her sorrow,
I'll marry this lady to-day,
And I'll marry the other to-morrow.

-- Trial by Jury.

[Consort]

The more esoteric and arcane meanings of freedom, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, etc., are beginning to surface and this is just the tip of the iceberg.

[Jhoffa_]

Sure, why not?

Since we can't make laws based on accepted custom and morality the door is now open to all manner of things.

[weegee]

Polygamists see open door for acceptance

As they should based on the precedant set by the activist Supreme Court.

[sandydipper]

HooRay! Just what I need - another wife. :(

[DannyTN]

Well you know what this means?

Disney will have to change it's insurance policies. Just wait until 150 gay guys say they are all married to each other and all try to get in on the health insurance as domestic partners.

[Scenic Sounds]

I think the best way to kill the polygamy movement is to just let them have what they want for a while. The law should never be used to blockade a man's search for common sense.

[gitmo]

The floodgates have opened.