Well... MSN is running the flip side of that weird polygamy cult-thing. Their solution; show happy polygamists!

Here is my top ten for why I think polygamy would be a BAD idea:

1. If your wives all decide your an ass... wouldn't you have to pay alimony to every wife?

2. Women are supposed to have their "cycle" synch up after awhile... imagine that "special time of the month" times how many women are in your house.

3. You are most likely outnumbered in any vote. I'm already losing the "I want a motorcyle" vote in my household with only one female!

4. Women really enjoy having time with you. This means that you are going to need to please X amount of women around a full work schedule and anything else you may have planned.

5. One of the polygamist women in the MSN interview stated that her "husband" married her twin sister. Althouh there is a fantasy; I have to admit that if I were her... I know for SURE I don't want to touch anything my family has been into.

6. Children: Given the nature of the relationship above... I think it would be weird to have a the same father as their aunt's kids. Do you call them brother or cousin?!?

7. What do you say when you get invited to a work holiday party? It's usually you and a your significant other... not three or four significant others. Who goes? Who's going to be frosty for the next few days because you didn't pick them?

8. What kind of car do you have to have to tote 22 kids and three wives around?!? I mean, at that point, I guess a freakin' bus would be the order of the day.

9. What do you do if your wife has an affair? State the sanctity of marriage? Can she marry him as well, and then it can all be one happy-freakin' family?!?

10. Imagine all the "dad" jobs around a household with a single wife and a couple of kids... times how many more people? holy crap! You'd never have a single second to yourself again!

According to Louis Utermeyer in A Treasury of Laughter (Simon & Schuster) "Once when Mark Twain was lecturing in Utah, a Mormon acquaintance argued with him o­n the subject of polygamy. After a long and rather heated debate, the Mormon finally said, ?Can you find for me a single passage of Scripture which forbids polygamy?? ?Certainly,? replied Twain. ??No man can serve two masters.?"

This mess in Texas has me thinking - which as we all know is pointless and dangerous at the same time.

In 1620, the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts to escape religious persecution. Some of the founders of this movement were executed [see Wikipedia] so obviously what the Pilgrims were doing was against English law.

Now we got a situation where a religious group is breaking American law. Where can they escape to - the moon?

I don't agree with how their children are raised or indoctrinated. I'm sure I'd be less than crazy about how some of y'all raise your kids and visa versa.

No question - they are breaking the law. I'm not attempting to argue that they should be 'let off' or that they are not breaking the law.

Maybe the sheer number of people involved in such a small number of square miles has me concerned. It just does not seem right that we are going to tear apart mothers and children, make everyone unhappy for years, cost the state millions of dollars, just so the 18 year olds can move back to the reservation and sue the state of Texas for separating them in the first place.

I'm real conflicted on this one because I see no real good solutions. Other than the Pilgrims option which isn't gonna happen and where would they go anyway? Deserted Pacific island? Give em Midway?

I dunno......
-MF

Perhaps they should abolish Marriages altogether. Why should married people have an advantage over single people? Thats how I feel, and it would settle this, and all the other 'union' problems.

Quote: Originally Posted by Dreyco Perhaps they should abolish Marriages altogether. Why should married people have an advantage over single people? Thats how I feel, and it would settle this, and all the other 'union' problems.

I agree. Let the church marry whoever it wants, and let the state respect the couplings it wants to. That solves all the issues neatly.

Quote: 2. Women are supposed to have their "cycle" synch up after awhile... imagine that "special time of the month" times how many women are in your house

1 Wife + 7 Daughters =

Quote: Originally Posted by Darksamurai 6. Children: Given the nature of the relationship above... I think it would be weird to have a the same father as their aunt's kids. Do you call them brother or cousin?!?

That reminds me of the song I am my own grampa.
I'M MY OWN GRAMPA -
Homer & Jethro 1956 RCA Victor 6765


Many, many years ago when I was 23
I was married to a Wider who was purty as can be
This Wider had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red
My father fell in love with her and soon they two were wed

This made my dad my son-in-law and changed my very life
For my daughter was my mother cause she was my father's wife
To complicate the matter even though it brought me joy
I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy


I'm my own grampa,
I'm my own grampa
It sounds funny I know
But it really is so
I'm my own grampa


My little baby then became a brother-in-law to dad
And so became my uncle though it made me very sad
For if he was my uncle then that also made him brother
Of the Wider's grown up daughter who of course was my step-mother

My father's wife then had a son who kept them on the run
And he became my granchild for he was my daughters son
My wife is now my mother's mother and it makes me blue
Because although she is my wife she's my grandmother too


I'm my own grampa,
I'm my own grampa
It sounds funny I know
But it really is so
I'm my own grampa


Oh if my wife is my grandmother then I'm her grandchild
And every time I think of it, it nearly drives me wild
For now I have become strangest case you ever saw
As husband of my own grandmother I'm my own grampa


I'm my own grampa,
I'm my own grampa
It sounds funny I know
But it really is so
I'm my own grampa



PS. I have no children. That I am aware of.