Polygamy

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.

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!

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?