Polygamy
Today MSN has a video which shows a polygamous family telling their story. On other polygamous news, the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, accused of having sex with minors, arranging marriages with minors, etc. is on the top 10 list of FBI's Most Wanted. Wait a sec, a Fundamentalist Christian church? I thought only Muslims were fundamentalists... .
Anyway. I'm not going to discuss cults today but rather about polygamy as a concept and practice. I can't speak on behalf of all men, but I'm assuming that, deep inside, our cavemen-hunter nature would want something of that nature. Oh wait, that's what the feminists and all the women magazines say :)
Seriously, I could imagine that quite a few men would be comfortable with that idea - afterall, there would be no more "headache" excuses. However, it is illegal. Mormons and Muslims alike are mocked for supporting it as part of their religion.
What puzzles me is the fact I was under the impression that state and church were separated. Reading from the famous First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Or is it separation from all religions but Judeo-Christian?
How did they come up with the law that you can be married to just one person? Isn't marriage itself a religious-based social contract? So, how did the lawmakers pick one religion to make its rules into a law and make everyone abide by them? Isn't this some kind of state enforced conversion?
Anyway. I'm not going to discuss cults today but rather about polygamy as a concept and practice. I can't speak on behalf of all men, but I'm assuming that, deep inside, our cavemen-hunter nature would want something of that nature. Oh wait, that's what the feminists and all the women magazines say :)
Seriously, I could imagine that quite a few men would be comfortable with that idea - afterall, there would be no more "headache" excuses. However, it is illegal. Mormons and Muslims alike are mocked for supporting it as part of their religion.
What puzzles me is the fact I was under the impression that state and church were separated. Reading from the famous First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Or is it separation from all religions but Judeo-Christian?
How did they come up with the law that you can be married to just one person? Isn't marriage itself a religious-based social contract? So, how did the lawmakers pick one religion to make its rules into a law and make everyone abide by them? Isn't this some kind of state enforced conversion?
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