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Coragyps
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Message 1 of 28 (615461)
05-13-2011 9:38 AM


Rather than go to all the onorous burden of actually looking on Wikipedia or Googling it, I thought I would ask here: why is it, really, that multiple spouses are pretty much illegal here in the US? I seem to remember that there weren't polygamy laws until the early Mormons started advocating multiple wives - this would point to the laws being an example of Us vs. Them, no? Why should there even be laws about this issue, beyond those protecting the rights of the fourth wife as well as those of the first.
And I would also like to hear some views on why polygamy could even be construed as "immoral" or "unchristian." Solomon, the wisest of men that he was, had some hundreds of wives, correct?
First introduction of the topic of same-sex marriage to this thread will result in application of the Second Corrolary of Godwin's Rule: the introducer will become a Nazi and be sent to Nurenberg for trial.

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Coragyps
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From: Snyder, Texas, USA
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Message 18 of 28 (638838)
10-26-2011 12:13 PM
Reply to: Message 12 by Possessor
10-26-2011 11:17 AM


Let's unpack what you just wrote a bit, Possessor.
When was the USA "one nation under God?" I think if you look at some history, you will find that the emphasis on that phrase began in 1954, when I was in the second grade in Sallisaw, Oklahoma. I had to relearn the Pledge of Allegiance because of commie-fearing politicians sliding it in. The laws against polygamy were passed nearly a century before that.
And where do you get the idea that Mormons have some god other than the one in the Old Testament, or the three in the New? Which "many gods" are we under now?
And what is "sin nature?" Does that term have a translation into non-fundy? I really would like to know.
Oh, and welcome to EvC!

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Coragyps
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Message 23 of 28 (638869)
10-26-2011 3:44 PM
Reply to: Message 20 by Possessor
10-26-2011 3:21 PM


Re: :blink: You didn't just say that, did you??
we all used to have the same views on religion
When was that? In the 1940's, when Jews couldn't buy houses in Christian neighborhoods? In the 1850's, when the Know-Nothings were a power in politics? Or back in the 1640's, when Virginia and Massachusetts banned Catholic immigrants? Or in 1200 BCE, when the Hebrews were allegedly slaughtering their neighbors for not following the correct god?

"The Christian church, in its attitude toward science, shows the mind of a more or less enlightened man of the Thirteenth Century. It no longer believes that the earth is flat, but it is still convinced that prayer can cure after medicine fails." H L Mencken

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