Why is it that Christian people can wink at sin, like couples living together without marriage?
Or, teen agers having babies? Sometimes, teen age boys brag about how many children they have with several girls.
Or serial monogamy? Men and women who marry, divorce, marry again, divorce again, etc.
And now, it's homosexual marriage. And if rumors are to be believed, some people are honestly trying to decriminalize beastiality!
And yet, when polygamy is mentioned, people go off the deep end! Men who have more than one wife are sexual animals, etc.
I know that these Fundamentalist Mormons are taking it to extremes. But, most polygamists don't marry that many women. Most only have maybe two or three.
They are accused of adultery, but they are MARRIED, while REAL adulterers are totally ignored by almost all churches.
I know that polygamy will never be legalized, because it would give women power that most men don't want them to have. Take, for instance, Bill Clinton. All his women are well known; Monica, Gennifer, Paula, etc. Now, if polygamy were legal, these women could say to Bill, "Look, you want it? You better put a ring on it!" (with apologies to Beyonce). And everyone knows it's cheaper to have a mistress than it is to have a wife. And more than one wife could break the bank.
So, what's so gawdawful terrible about polygamy? Perhaps churches should try looking sin in the face, and calling it what it is.
I guess I didn't make myself totally clear.
I do not condone anything by the Fundamentalist Mormons, Warren Jeffs' group.
I believe that polygamy, far from demeaning women, would empower them. Women give men too much power.
Have you ever seen those stupid talk shows where this man tells his girlfriend that he slept with her best friend or something, and then these women are fighting over this creep, and he's just sitting there, digging it. Why would either of them want HIM? They should look at each other, then say, you know what? He's not worth it. Let's go shopping! and then leave him.
Polygamy can be demeaning to women, IF you give him the power to do so. But, if you TAKE that power, you can start to have a real working relationship, where no one demeans anyone.
Brigham Young encouraged all his wives to better themselves. Become teachers and entrepreneurs, and he even sent at least one and maybe as many as three, of his wives back east to college to becom
to become doctors.