Thread: Polygamous Montana Trio Applies For Wedding License

Originally Posted by akrunner88

Actually, if you believe marriage is between two people your argument still remains consistent.

However though, and again, it's only conservatives arguing for polygamy and incest sister-cousin marriages. Those marriages mostly apply to religious people. Especially sister, cousin, mother, dad, mom marriages.

strawmans are strawmans.

if you support alternative marriages and are against polygamy then you are being hypocritical in your position.
alternative marriages are anything outside of 1 man and 1 women.

I don't see to many conservatives arguing for polygamy or incest marriages.
umm no they don't apply to religious people your information is highly flawed.

Originally Posted by Ockham

Polygamy in biblical times was a cultural tradition, not a religious one. Multiple wives were acceptable culturally as were concubines (mistresses). Abraham, David, Solomon... all men of God in the Old Testament but note, they normally did not have more than a few. The argument for polygamy is this: If God were set against Polygamy he would have provided a law to one of his prophets in the Old Testament to ban it. There are some areas in the bible where God warns against it, but it is not outright banned - so morally and religiously there is no strict rule against it.

Deuteronomy 21:15-17
Deuteronomy 17:17

Polygamy was banned under the Roman laws, which the rest of the Christian world adopted, it spread through Europe and then to the United States and South America. Frankly, more than one wife in the house seems masochistic to me but each to their own.

It is clear that God intended marriage to be between one man, and one woman. I mean, two chapters into the Bible, but also throughout.

Genesis 2:24 English Standard Version (ESV)

24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Originally Posted by ludin

strawmans are strawmans.

if you support alternative marriages and are against polygamy then you are being hypocritical in your position.
alternative marriages are anything outside of 1 man and 1 women.

I don't see to many conservatives arguing for polygamy or incest marriages.
umm no they don't apply to religious people your information is highly flawed.

It's conservatives that take part in incrstuous relationships with their own families. It's conservatives in polygamous arrangements that want to legitimize it as a marriage.

Two men or two women marrying is no longer an alternative marriage. It is just simply marriage. So no hypocrisy taking place.

Originally Posted by American

Here's something else to consider, two women in the house don't always get along. It takes a very special set of rules and attitudes of acceptance to make it work. But outside of that, the legality is up to society which appears to be in a mood to accept it.

In the Middle East they go by this rule, seems to work well for them.

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Originally Posted by Deuce

Serious question:

Who cares if three people are married, and why?

The best answer that I have found, after some in depth research into recent court cases, for the answer to your question is, "the state." Specifically as it relates to the tax incentives and inheritance laws of marriage. If a polygamist relationship is allowed, then the probability of fraud goes up quite a bit and thus, the State could be forced to pay out the benefits of a polygamous relationship with very little control over the supposed societal benefits associated with a family structure that is anchored by marriage.

Originally Posted by akrunner88

Actually, if you believe marriage is between two people your argument still remains consistent.

However though, and again, it's only conservatives arguing for polygamy and incest sister-cousin marriages. Those marriages mostly apply to religious people. Especially sister, cousin, mother, dad, mom marriages.

That's retarded. What conservatives are arguing for your liberal stereotypes of conservatives?

Originally Posted by akrunner88

It's conservatives that take part in incrstuous relationships with their own families. It's conservatives in polygamous arrangements that want to legitimize it as a marriage.

Two men or two women marrying is no longer an alternative marriage. It is just simply marriage. So no hypocrisy taking place.

you have no idea what you are talking about this doesn't even make any sense.

Originally Posted by Moot

Does North Carolina have a large Gay population?

Don't know....

And it is irrelevant..... as the Rights and Liberties of the people are important whether their numbers are large, or small.