Polygamy -- one view : eventually dangerous for a society

[alfreda89]

Here's a article on why polygamy is not something to be lumped into the "gay marriage" debate. In fact, the author suggests that single sex marriages can stabilize a society, while allowing one man multiple wives (polyandry, one woman, several husbands, is almost extinct in the world) guarantees that some men will never marry -- and an unmarried young man is a candidate for wars, gangs, etc.

This column is dated today, so look fast. From the article:

"So far, libertarians and lifestyle liberals approach polygamy as an individual-choice issue, while cultural conservatives use it as a bloody shirt to wave in the gay-marriage debate. The broad public opposes polygamy but is unsure why. What hardly anyone is doing is thinking about polygamy as social policy.

If the coming debate changes that, it will have done everyone a favor. For reasons that have everything to do with its own social dynamics and nothing to do with gay marriage, polygamy is a profoundly hazardous policy."

http://nationaljournal.com/rauch.htm

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[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

The article is quite passionate about it.

He did seem that way, didn't he? But if the "dumping" of youths so they will not grow up to be competition for the silverbacks in the outlawed Mormon poly offshoot is true, we already have trouble.

And -- I read somewhere that Utah basically can't do anything about the poly families, because if they do, all those kids get dumped on the state foster care rolls, and it would swamp them.

That's double trouble. And it's building in Texas and Montana.