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Old 07-13-2020, 06:36 PM
 
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So the 50% who fail should just give up and join that club? You are blaming the institution of marriage, rather than the individuals. And at the same time you won't blame the individuals, you yet seem to have little faith in mankind. Puzzling, to say the least.
Just perspective I guess - I truly believe many people were not cut out for monogamy - and the stats prove that out. Has nothing to do with a lack of faith in mankind, more like a lack of faith in monogamous marriage for everyone, so bring on other options.
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Old 07-14-2020, 09:24 AM
 
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I’ve heard of some Mormons practicing polygamy but I haven’t met a single Muslim practicing polygamy in the US.
The practice of polygamy is an excommunicable offense in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the church you probably call the Mormon Church) and has been for years. There are a few splinter groups that practice it but they are no more a part of the main LDS Church than Lutheranism is a part of Catholicism, the church it split from four centuries ago.
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Old 07-14-2020, 09:43 AM
 
Location: Boston
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The practice of polygamy is an excommunicable offense in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the church you probably call the Mormon Church) and has been for years. There are a few splinter groups that practice it but they are no more a part of the main LDS Church than Lutheranism is a part of Catholicism, the church it split from four centuries ago.
True story. FLDS is the guilty party today, but it obscures the fact President Woodruff only issued the Manifesto to end it within the LDS church because the church caved to pressure to join the US (which would not admit them with polygamy sanctioned) and not because it was actually something they didn't believe in anymore.

The question I've occasionally wondered is, if the prevailing social attitude toward polygamy changed toward favorable again, would the LDS church reverse the decision and start allowing it again?
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Old 07-14-2020, 10:17 AM
 
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I know people who weren’t cut out for monogamy either. They’ve stayed single and date when they feel like it.
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Old 07-14-2020, 10:30 AM
 
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Polygamy is banned in all 50 states, including both Utah and Massachusetts. Even Mormons did away with it in 1882. Muslims are pretty much the only major group left practicing it now. Well, Muslims and Somerville hipsters I guess.
I worked with a Kenyan guy who had a wife and four kids. He was complaining to our American coworker that, in Kenya, he'd have enough money for several wives! The American guy, complaining about his wife and three kids all the time, asked why anyone would want more than one wife if any at all.

I learned a lot about *some* men working nights with them.

When I knew poly people, it sure wasn't only the men who were poly. But there was no legal standing for any of them except, then, one man and one woman, so no insurance or Soc. Security survivor, etc. I imagine that is what the people in Somerville are aiming at, not group marriage per se.
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Old 07-14-2020, 10:31 AM
 
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I haven't read the actual Somerville law, but does it give legal standing?
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Old 07-14-2020, 11:23 AM
 
Location: Massachusetts & Hilton Head, SC
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I haven't read the actual Somerville law, but does it give legal standing?
It aims to provide domestic partner benefits which is legal but those are limited to one person at a time anyway.
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Old 07-14-2020, 03:19 PM
 
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I know people who weren’t cut out for monogamy either. They’ve stayed single and date when they feel like it.
That’s one option, some people want kids.
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Old 07-14-2020, 06:10 PM
 
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That’s one option, some people want kids.
They can still have them without being married to several people lol. I actually know a few people who couldn’t commit to one person who still actually have kids.
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Old 07-15-2020, 08:40 AM
 
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True story. FLDS is the guilty party today, but it obscures the fact President Woodruff only issued the Manifesto to end it within the LDS church because the church caved to pressure to join the US (which would not admit them with polygamy sanctioned) and not because it was actually something they didn't believe in anymore.

The question I've occasionally wondered is, if the prevailing social attitude toward polygamy changed toward favorable again, would the LDS church reverse the decision and start allowing it again?
No. I doubt that very, very, very much.
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