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Religion What is your take on religion? Do you base your thoughts in life according to your religion? Do you feel that religion should be kept out of Government and Politics?

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Old 11-29-2006, 04:04 PM   #11 (permalink)
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What Jaxian had to say makes a lot of sense from the financial aspect, providing a sound reason for why the federal government and insurance companies would be opposed to the idea of polygamy.
On the other side of it, what consenting adults choose to do with their lives is their own business.
However, what is going to happen if the husband should accidentally die and all the wives and kids are left with the house? I would wonder about the legal implications in such a case and the problems that would present. What about remarriage, etc...
Would all the women have to remarry the the same man? What a dilemma.
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Yet look at the problems is does cause. Marriage between a man and another woman, then her sister, then her cousin's daughter, the list just continues. There have been polygamist marriage with brides as young as 13. Come on, is this really what we want in our progressive nation? I am sorry but having traditionalized marriage we have provided a stable society. Marriage is the first true institution that predates even our Constitution. It has been recognized for how many centuries? Change is not always progress, just ask those who have lost their homes so cities can charge higher tax rates and generate higher tax revenues from new private owners.

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We aren't taking about incest or pedophilia. We are taking about more than 2 consenting adults being married. If we truely have freedom in this country why shouldn't we allow 3 consenting, unrelated adults to marry?
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We aren't taking about incest or pedophilia. We are taking about more than 2 consenting adults being married. If we truely have freedom in this country why shouldn't we allow 3 consenting, unrelated adults to marry?
why not 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, etc?
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What Jaxian had to say makes a lot of sense from the financial aspect, providing a sound reason for why the federal government and insurance companies would be opposed to the idea of polygamy.
On the other side of it, what consenting adults choose to do with their lives is their own business.
However, what is going to happen if the husband should accidentally die and all the wives and kids are left with the house? I would wonder about the legal implications in such a case and the problems that would present. What about remarriage, etc...
Well, like I had said, I think that the benefits of marriage, including property benefits, should be granted to only one other person. Thus, the person you have chosen to bestow those benefits upon would get your house, assuming you did not specify otherwise in some sort of will.

As for the remaining spouses, if they'd married one another, they should still be married to each other. They'd be free to divorce and remarry as they chose.
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Well, like I had said, I think that the benefits of marriage, including property benefits, should be granted to only one other person. Thus, the person you have chosen to bestow those benefits upon would get your house, assuming you did not specify otherwise in some sort of will.

As for the remaining spouses, if they'd married one another, they should still be married to each other. They'd be free to divorce and remarry as they chose.
That is not fair. How can you have 4 wives and only pick one to get your house and money? If "the benefits" of marriage are only applied to one surviving spouse, that would leave 4 women out in the cold. That is bigotry. You are choosing 1 woman and leaving 3 with nothing when they all had the same position in being his wife.
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why not 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, etc?
why not?
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