Barnabas Collins
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Polygamy: The Next Marriage Rights Frontier - YouTube
A lot of people are claiming that if we allow gay marriage then polygamy will be next. Well, why not? If a man wants to marry a man, and that is legal, then why can't a man marry two women? I realize that our laws are based largely on Roman law, which incidentally was set up for inheritance purposes and recognized that men would be able to have slave girls and boys at their disposal. When the Catholic Church came along they adopted these laws into doctrine despite the prophets of the Bible having been polygamists. Even Martin Luther later noted that the Bible has no condemnation of polygamy.
So why not allow it? There seems a lot more women out there who would like to settle down and have some kids than there are men available that anyone would want to reproduce with.
A lot of people are claiming that if we allow gay marriage then polygamy will be next. Well, why not? If a man wants to marry a man, and that is legal, then why can't a man marry two women? I realize that our laws are based largely on Roman law, which incidentally was set up for inheritance purposes and recognized that men would be able to have slave girls and boys at their disposal. When the Catholic Church came along they adopted these laws into doctrine despite the prophets of the Bible having been polygamists. Even Martin Luther later noted that the Bible has no condemnation of polygamy.
So why not allow it? There seems a lot more women out there who would like to settle down and have some kids than there are men available that anyone would want to reproduce with.