tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-748491872959895076.post1763080028738659172..comments2024-01-27T08:03:09.251-05:00Comments on Religion in the American West: Polygamy and Gay Marriage: A Reflection on “Non-Traditional” MarriageReligion in the American Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10840982555917381092noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-748491872959895076.post-89968749273955029132013-06-03T11:30:41.581-04:002013-06-03T11:30:41.581-04:00This post was not an apologetic of polygamy or gay...This post was not an apologetic of polygamy or gay marriage. What I did find interesting in light of these comments was that when I first posted this comparison, I had an LDS friend contact me upset that I would compare the two, since one was "obviously harmful." She was fully convinced that gay marriage hurt children and couples. She cited "empirical evidence" of social scientists to show that homosexuality leads to child abuse, incest, pornography, broken homes, etc. What hits me as significant is that the popular fear against both continue to sound so familiar. Konden S.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-748491872959895076.post-50445127190579690422013-04-07T01:30:02.710-04:002013-04-07T01:30:02.710-04:00The practice of polygamy, especially in 19th Centu...The practice of polygamy, especially in 19th Century Mormon and current day FLDS form, has been repeatedly proven to be incredibly destructive to the lives of women and children by the social sciences, this is very true. However, from looking at a pure historically legislative perspective, I feel that the governmental reasoning behind the prohibition of both polygamy and gay marriage, do indeed parallel each other. The U.S. government, in both cases, uses the social normative family structure to dictate moral behavior. It was by chance that the result of polygamist legislation happened to impact society for the betterment. This is because the legislation and sentiments shared by popular culture in the 19th Century, and hence the American government which only changed a few decades ago by-the-way, did not in any way take the impact of polygamy as something that will harm women nor children, after all they were barely people, it was to impose their own moralistic standards and norms at a cultural level. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10272620736531298924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-748491872959895076.post-81618544806042932872013-04-01T22:41:09.445-04:002013-04-01T22:41:09.445-04:00Regarding polygamy, the popular term for a man tak...Regarding polygamy, the popular term for a man taking multiple "wives:" there is now plenty of "empirical evidence" in the research papers written by social scientists to show that polygamy harms women and their children. This ancient practice reduces women to second-class citizenship, not equal to the male....where is the equality in one man collecting women as if they were concubines for his harem, so that he can enjoy a sex fest every night with a different partner while the women are obliged to remain faithful to him, and take their turn for his sexual attentions as if they were cows lining up to be serviced by a bull? As well, only the first, legal wife and her children are legally entitled to share in the man's life insurance, health and dental insurance, pensions and tax benefits etc. The remaining women are on their own and they and their children have no legal recourse and can face poverty if the man dies. These are among the reasons that on November 23, 2011,Chief Justice Robert Bauman of BC Supreme Court, ruled that S. 293 CC, proscribing polygamy is constitutional in that polygamy is an anti-social act, contravening the equality rights of women, impoverishing their children, and setting poorer men against richer men who can afford to collect more women..... Nature has not made even two women for every one man, therefore each polygamist male is robbing his brothers of the chance for a wife and family of their own. Look the case up on the Internet. Polygamy comes from the dark ages when women had no rights whatsoever and were considered property. Time to kick it into the garbage can of history! The year is 2013 AD, not 2013 BC, and women in the First World -- although, sadly, not in the Third World -- are now legally men's equals.Jancis M. Andrewsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-748491872959895076.post-47554725918081585032013-04-01T22:40:24.545-04:002013-04-01T22:40:24.545-04:00Regarding polygamy, the popular term for a man tak...Regarding polygamy, the popular term for a man taking multiple "wives:" there is now plenty of "empirical evidence" in the research papers written by social scientists to show that polygamy harms women and their children. This ancient practice reduces women to second-class citizenship, not equal to the male....where is the equality in one man collecting women as if they were concubines for his harem, so that he can enjoy a sex fest every night with a different partner while the women are obliged to remain faithful to him, and take their turn for his sexual attentions as if they were cows lining up to be serviced by a bull? As well, only the first, legal wife and her children are legally entitled to share in the man's life insurance, health and dental insurance, pensions and tax benefits etc. The remaining women are on their own and they and their children have no legal recourse and can face poverty if the man dies. These are among the reasons that on November 23, 2011,Chief Justice Robert Bauman of BC Supreme Court, ruled that S. 293 CC, proscribing polygamy is constitutional in that polygamy is an anti-social act, contravening the equality rights of women, impoverishing their children, and setting poorer men against richer men who can afford to collect more women..... Nature has not made even two women for every one man, therefore each polygamist male is robbing his brothers of the chance for a wife and family of their own. Look the case up on the Internet. Polygamy comes from the dark ages when women had no rights whatsoever and were considered property. Time to kick it into the garbage can of history! The year is 2013 AD, not 2013 BC, and women in the First World -- although, sadly, not in the Third World -- are now legally men's equals. Jancis M. Andrewsnoreply@blogger.com