Polygamy advocate Mark Henkel provides great arguments for Polygamy:
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Peeling the Onion
Posted in About Polygamy, Family Life, Government, Rights on September 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A Snapshot of Polygamy: Stories (Part 1)
Posted in About Polygamy, Community, Family Life, Government, Rights, School on August 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah. Mine was a young suburb filled with new trees planted in the easement strip. Dotted and dashed along the sidewalk, driveways stitching neighbors into the commonness of the neighborhood. On each side of us and in just about each home on the street were kids my age [...]
A Feminist Studies Mormon Polygamy And, Remarkably, Finds That It Liberated the Wives
Posted in Rights, Family Life, Community, About Polygamy on August 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Here’s an interesting archive from the July 10, 1978 Vol. 10 No. 2 edition of People Magazine. A Feminist Studies Mormon Polygamy And, Remarkably, Finds That It Liberated the Wives By Linda Witt For her Ph.D. thesis in counseling psychology at Northwestern University, Utah-born Vicky Burgess-Olson felt herself drawn to an examination of her Mormon roots and the [...]
The paradox of polygamy II: Why most women benefit from polygamy and most men benefit from monogamy
Posted in About Polygamy, Family Life, Government, Rights on August 2, 2011 | 5 Comments »
The paradox of polygamy II: Why most women benefit from polygamy and most men benefit from monogamy By Satoshi Kanazawa Created Feb 21 2008 – 7:10pm Contrary to popular belief, most women benefit from polygynous society, and most men benefit from monogamous society. This is because polygynous society allows some women to share a resourceful man of [...]
The paradox of polygamy I: Why most Americans are polygamous
Posted in About Polygamy, Family Life, Rights on August 2, 2011 | 3 Comments »
The paradox of polygamy I: Why most Americans are polygamous By Satoshi Kanazawa Created Feb 17 2008 – 8:07am Polygyny has been in the public eye and many Americans’ water-cooler conversations lately, from the success of the HBO series Big Love to the trial of the Mormon sect leader Warren Jeffs. Most Americans consider polygynous marriage to be exotic, unusual, bizarre, [...]
The Present State of Our Polygamous Future
Posted in About Polygamy, Family Life, Government, Rights on July 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Present State of Our Polygamous Future Jul 20, 2011 Joe Carter http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2011/07/the-present-state-of-our-polygamous-future In an interview on the science in science fiction, novelist William Gibson noted, “[T]he future is already here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.” What Gibson meant was that the innovations in science fiction could already be found—at least in embryonic form—in [...]
We may not like Polygamy, but Decriminalization makes sense
Posted in About Polygamy, Community, Family Life, Government, Rights on December 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The following article from the Globe and Mail, written by Marina Adshade (economist at Dalhousie University) makes an interesting arguement for decriminalization: The overwhelming majority of Canadians do not want to live in a polygamous household and, from an economic perspective, that observation is a bit of a mystery.
Face to Face with the Polygamous Beast
Posted in About Polygamy, Community, Family Life, Rights on December 10, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The sarcasm and humor in this piece is just too much to resist sharing here on our blog. JRNorth articulates many of the talking points we’ve attempted to educate our society with. Many who have left the “monogamous” society will appreciate this piece. I don’t know if there is something in the water, or what [...]
What harms do polygamy laws prevent?
Posted in About Polygamy, Canada, Community, Family Life, Government, Rights on December 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The following article, written by Kate Heartfield of the ‘Ottawa Citizen’, echoes some of our talking points raised with government officials in both Utah and Arizona concerning the laws against adult consensual polygamy. The polygamy reference case has already made a valuable contribution: It has focused the debate on the question of harm. Apologists for [...]
Legalize Polygamy in America. Why not?
Posted in About Polygamy, Family Life, Government, Rights on November 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I found this blog with its attendant argument for legalizing polygamy. It is written from the perspective of a black male born in Nigeria and familiar with African tradition and also Muslim beliefs. Apparently he has researched Mormonism as well and has some interesting insights and arguments for legalization. I find it interesting that opinions [...]
