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Originally Posted by KSig RC
I guess I'll just take another step beyond Kevin's point ... historically, the two main legal reasons for outlawing polygamy have been:
1 - The high incidence of multiple marriages and marrying extremely young women, along with the attendant pressures to marry; and
2 - The difficulty of creating a legal accord between more than two people in the same sense of marriage.
Additionally:
-The Christian definition of "marriage" as one man and one woman.
So considering that we have considerably more resources to protect children, and we are in a position to open legal definitions of marriage across the board ... is it time to rethink polygamy?
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I think #2 might be a problem, still. And obviously the FLDS proves time and again that
they have a problem with #1.