What is the def of Polygamy?
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In anthropology, polygamy is the practice of marriage to more than one partner at the same time. Polygamy comes mainly in two forms: Polyandry (one wife, several husbands) is rather rare and mostly covers relationships where several men share a wife; on the other hand there is the far more common polygyny (one husband, several wifes).\nIn everyday language polygamy is used when people are cactually talking about polygyny.
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Polygamy is when somebody marries more than one person.  I wouldn't want to be in a type of relationship like that.  Here in America, it should be legal.  Since this is a free country, why not let us choose who we want to marry and how many we want to marry.  In other countries, people do it because that's how they can feed and take care of women and children.  And in the old days, in war, a man was allowed to marry his brother's wife if his brother died in war.  This was to take care of the wife and children.  Bottom line is it should be allowed everywhere in the United States.
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Your comment brings up a very valid point.\n\nThose proponents of marriage being defined as between one man and one woman say that if the definition were changed, where would it stop.\n\nI say marriage should be defined between two human beings that love eachother. However the polygamists may disagree as well as other members of society that have an 'unorthodox' view of what marriage is.
1006657
That's a good question, since so many Christians these days and for the past thousand years or two have been against it.  Maybe it just doesn't want to say that the women finally put their collective foot down and wouldn't stand for the polygamy anymore.\n\nY'know, it's kind of amusing how Christians make fun of Muslims for their 72 virgins thing, when that last verse has its own virgins-in-heaven myth.  I like it.
647304
Then they are polygamists and are violating the law of the USA.\nAnd what about the Bible. Jesus defended the Old Testament and there was lots of polygamy there. Doesn't make it good or right, however.
697813
It is a matter of record that some of the OT people had many wives. But what is recorded in the Bible should not be confused with what is approved and commended in the Bible. Polygamy was never God's original intention for man.
260080
polygamy is only legal where the civil authorities don't have the guts to deal with it.  Officially it's illegal everywhere.
534579
Yes, but the converse is also true.  Mormen men only gain salvation through their wives.  Its a package deal in Mormonism. Families are a very big deal in Mormon theology. According to strict mormon theology only married couples can recieve exhaltation the highest level of salvation. Many mormons will disagree since they dont know their own theology as well as they should.
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HE he he !  Have a lookie at my anser to your question!  I drove the local preachQ -- What are your views on Christian Polygamy. It seems OK because the\n Bible does not prohibit it.\n\n\n((((A -- A difficult question to answer in a few words. Let me answer your question by \nsupplying with a short research paper that is downloadable to paper.)))) \n\n\n\nHistorical Polygamyers out of their tree showing them my research!
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Ask they how they would feel if the Western World said "yes" but it had to apply both ways?\n\nI suspect that might not be as acceptable :-)\n\nBasically folks should follow their own paths - most versions of polygamy that I have seen described are one-way both in gender and in the purpose of it (the 4 wives description above is quite telling).
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Not only they can marry but they are also polygmist. They can have four wives at a time. If one dies or divorce they can keep the count and marry one more.\n\nThe more they marry the merrier they are.
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well, muslim polygamy emerged from the disproportionate number of women to men because so many men were out fighting battles. because there were so much more women than men polygamy emerged to save the muslim population. Had women fought the battles and not men, it might have been the other way around
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Actually Mormons have not stopped polygamy at all.  They simply have hidden it among certain members.  I have studied Mormons and many other religions for decades and know a great deal about them.  More than most Mormons even know.  They publicly denounce polygamy and when recruiting will tell people that ask about it, that no they dont believe it and will refer to Adam having one wife Eve.  However when a Mormon has been in the organization long enough they will say that polygamy is in their belief and they should be like Abraham having many wives.  However they encourage not practicing it to not draw attention by the law.  Yet even today there are those known as the hard core Mormons that live in communes in Utah that do practice polygamy openly.  The church spends a great deal of effort to hide these people as they are considered the "true believers".\n\nYears ago at one of their get togethers there was a Mormon that showed up traveling around.  He had the classic 1800s look of an Omish type person with his beard and no mustache.  I knew I struck pay dirt and went to meet him.  The Mormon bishop and elders knowing who I was tried to distract me but I eventually got to him.  He had no idea who I was and I potrayed myself as a fellow Mormon.  I said all the keywords stating my dad had went through temple marriage ceremonies.  I told him I hope to wear the sacred robe and speak the oaths of secrecy too.  The guy began to speak of how he felt that modern Mormons were gutless and not going to have their own planet like Jehovah.  He then told me about his multiple wives in Utah.  He was overall disgusted that Mormonism had sold out and not practicing what Joseph and Brigham had taught.\n\nSo yes they do believe in this heavily just have a hard time practicing it in the US.  There is a movie that is forbidden for all Mormons to watch but is a tremendous movie called "the godmakers".  It is good expose on them made by former Mormons.  \n\nI have talked with hundreds of Mormons in my time and it has always amazed me about them.  Averagely they are some of the most intelligent and nice people you will ever meet.  I have always just been blown away with the history of that religion and it obvious contradictory beliefs that these good people can stay in it.  It is quite a shame.\n\nI would not worry about these kids preaching out there.  I have never had a problem with anyone of any belief speaking their mind.  No matter how "wrong" I might feel they are, I enjoy hearing people's views.  I like knowing how people came to their life's conclusions.  What draws them to things.
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Polygamy is allowed by the LORD in the Bible, but unfortunately not by the traditions of man as found in "Christianity". \n\nOne does have to wonder how it is that a man can have any numbers of "babies mommas" and that's perfectly legal, but if he tries to be responsible through marriage to them we then want to put him in jail. What hypocrisy!\n\nUnfortunately US Laws against polygamy has nothing to do with Christianity. It has everything to do with accountability. Men just do not want to be accountable to the women they are intimate with. Which is really a form of victimization.\n\nSo what your left with, is a record rate of unwed mothers, an outrageous divorce rate, and a mass exodus from the church.\n\nGod Bless,\n\nRobert
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Actually, it's a federal law in the US:\n\nBigamy: Crime of marrying during the continuance of a lawful marriage. Bigamy is not committed if a prior marriage has been terminated by a divorce or a decree of nullity of marriage. In the United States if a husband or wife is absent and unheard of for seven (or in some states five) years and not known to be alive, he or she is presumed dead, and remarriage by the other spouse is not bigamous. It is not necessarily a defense to a charge of bigamy that the offending party believed in good faith that he was divorced or that his previous marriage was not lawful.\n\nThe U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1878 that plurality of wives (polygamy), as originally permitted by the Mormon religion, violated criminal law and was not defensible as an exercise of religious liberty. The Latter-day Saints renounced polygamy in 1890, but the practice has persisted among some, although it has been rarely prosecuted.
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Polygamy was originally started because of a revelation from the Lord.  The church had suffered a lot of persecution, and a lot of the men of the church had been killed.  This left a lot of widows, and a lot of single young women with nobody to marry.  So the Lord instituted polygamy, for a few members of the church, who had the means to care for a very large family.  This alowed for the women of the church to be taken care of, and for more children to be born and raised in the church, increasing the membership.  Later, there came a time when the Lord revealed that it should be stopped.  Nobody can know for sure what the Lord's reasons are, but most likely it was because the numbers in the church were reaching the point where they were evening out, and it was no longer necessary, and because the laws of the land were changing, and polygamy was outlawed.  The church teaches that you should follow the laws of the land, and therefore, the Lord told them to discontinue this practice.
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first off, thats not polygamy. And unless everything is on the table its not polyamory. What you are doing is cheating unless you have permission from your wife. If you don't have her blessing? You're an idiot playing with dynomite