This op-ed piece by Mark Goldfeder in the Salt Lake Tribune adds some insightful and respectful commentary on the debate going on regading DOMA and Polygamy.
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Polygamy and DOMA
Posted in About Polygamy, Government, Rights on May 13, 2013 | 1 Comment »
The Right to Polygamy?
Posted in About Polygamy, Family Life, Government, Rights on May 13, 2013 | 1 Comment »
The following is an interesting opinion regarding Jillian Keenan’s “Legalize Polygamy!” article in Slate. It is written by Peter Lawler.
Legalize Polygamy! No I am not kidding. By Jillian Keenan
Posted in About Polygamy, Community, Family Life, Government, Rights on April 16, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Recently, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council reintroduced a tired refrain: Legalized gay marriage could lead to other legal forms of marriage disaster, such as polygamy. Rick Santorum, Bill O’Reilly, and other social conservatives have made similar claims. It’s hardly a new prediction—we’ve been hearing it for years. Gay marriage is a slippery slope! A gateway drug! If we legalize it, then what’s next? Legalized polygamy?
We can only hope. (Click here to goto Slate and the rest of the article)
Time – Top 10 Everything of 2012: Polygamy Activism is #5
Posted in About Polygamy, Government, Rights on December 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It is fascinating to see the attention that Polygamy Activism is now getting.
Click “here” for Time Magazine’s take:
Peeling the Onion
Posted in About Polygamy, Family Life, Government, Rights on September 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Polygamy advocate Mark Henkel provides great arguments for Polygamy:
A Snapshot of Polygamy: Stories (Part 1)
Posted in About Polygamy, Community, Family Life, Government, Rights, School on August 8, 2011 | 1 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 and most in my class at school. Young families, filled with promise, living the American Dream. All were equal, right? It was supposed, but not practiced.
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 high status. George Bernard Shaw (who was one of the founders of the London School of Economics and Political Science where I teach) put it best, when he observed, “The maternal instinct leads a woman to prefer a tenth share in a first rate man to the exclusive possession of a third rate one.”
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 our current ideas or technology. Much the same could be said about future social and legal norms concerning the institution of marriage—they are already here, they’re just not evenly distributed yet.
Polygamy Law: Freedom vs Harm
Posted in About Polygamy, Canada, Government, Rights on February 2, 2011 | 5 Comments »
This blog post from “Progressive Proselytizing” caught our attention:
On the Morality of Polygamy Law: Freedom vs Harm
Should polygamy be legal? This question is at the core of the landmark polygamy case slowly working its way up the Canadian justice system. To answer this, we look at the balance between harm and freedom. The balance in this case is contrasted to the case of gay marriage.
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.
