Oprah and Lisa Ling just did a special on Polygamy (Plural Marriages) in America. What's your take on the issue?
Submitted 111 days ago by erisedilla  Favorite
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In Islamic tradition, a man must prove he is capable of supporting multiple wives before he can marry additional wives. Plural marriages in America do not have the same standard. A man has one legal wife, and then a bunch of baby-mamas who are collecting welfare while living under his roof and he's picking who he wants to have sex with on which night. WE are supporting his "plural marriage" while he lives in virtual poverty paying paltry amounts of child support that then circle back into his own house along with the welfare and food stamps the "single moms" collect. They live quite handsomely at taxpayer expense.
My take is we need more social workers to investigate. If they are collecting holy wives, then they shouldn't qualify for welfare and food stamps. Maybe God will provide as proof of his blessing on the marriages.
Interesting take on it, but leaves the door open for the government making that decision about any mother collecting welfare. :-(
Nope. Just a 'home visit' on a regular basis. If a woman is found living with a man who is the father of her children and a large number of women who are ALSO receiving full government benefits as "single" mothers, then there needs to be a re-designation of the amount of welfare they can receive. Or, better yet, employment created so they can actually work for the benefits they receive. Especially since there are so many other caretakers all living in the same house.
There is an issue.... It is not legal, why should monogamist marriage be legal but not polygamist? That is not equality....
Because that was the deal Utah made to be admitted into the union?
Everyone knew it was illegal at the time, but went for it anyway. No matter how much we preach freedom of religion, we don't really mean it.
And no child should be forced to marry. I am far more concerned about 14-year-olds being married off to the patriarch than I am about food stamps.
yeah - my big problem is that it's way too much of a blanket term. at the same time that it covers "average" people who just happen to live in a plural situation, it also covers the whack-job cults who force their little girls to marry horny 50 year old dudes.
but then again, that stuff happens in single marriages, too. there are a lot of crazies in the world - but a certain concentration of them among polygamists has given them a bad rep.
Religious polygamy is NOT illegal in the US. A man can only have one LEGAL wife - but there is no law that keeps you from stepping into a church and taking as many 'holy' wives (or husbands) as you wish. But only ONE spouse can stand as a legal beneficiary of the legal contract of marriage. The Old Testament clearly states that a man can have more than one wife. But then we get into separation of Church and State. The State says you only get one.
Proof? The Mormon polygamists weren't charged with polygamy because no legal polygamy took place. The were arrested and investigated for potential child abuse charges for molesting under aged girls.
I know that you can have as many "spiritual" spouses, but whats a Euro in the U.S.????
$1.5502
it was an analogy... I am saying that the "spiritual recognition" [euro] is not legally recognized in the U.S.... One thing that is recognized by your peers is not legally recognized and their are no benefits for the partners...
I can't imagine why anyone would want to do it once, let alone multiple times.
Because you get to slap your wives and children around when they get on your nerves, and the church elders won't punish you for slapping them around. They yell at your wives and kids for doing things that MAKE you slap them around. Good deal for the guys, eh?