Heard about your community from TV of all places. I am not an avid watcher but do watch “Our America,’ once in a while and your community was the topic tonight. I was very impressed with the frank courage of all those who were interviewed and touched with the genuine caring each person seemed to have for the community at large.

Although I do not think I would want to engage in polygamy any more than I would any other alternative lifestyle I cannot see why it is condemned. I ask myself again and again, ‘who is harmed?’ Why must we all fit into neat social boxes when we claim we are a free country? It smacks of discrimination and repression to me, defining ‘marriage’ as being solely between one man and one woman and dragging the bible, which some Americans do NOT believe is the word of God, is not what a separation of church and state – unless I am ignorant and fail to understand the difference between the two. Could be I guess I’m not as bright as I think, but I believe meddling in how people choose to marry, and whom they choose to marry should be left up to them as long as the individuals involved are competent to make such a commitment.

I think that those who shriek against polygamy do so out of ignorance, pathology, fear and perhaps jealously. I hope that more people saw the program and were educated or moved as I was. Thank you for allowing me to visit your community.

This fact does not deny that the natural distribution of males and females will be consistent, so that we have cities around the world where there are more men than women for instance. This unnatural distribution of the sexes is also easily seen in dating sites, where men dominate most dating sites from 4 to 1 to as high as 20 to 1. This only informs us that men see and use dating techniques far differently than what women do, who do not want to be seen as being desperate or as commodities in any society.

Now, we know that any inbalances in the male and female birth rate in any nation are purely due to social and cultural engineering, whereby there is a preference for couples to sire male children only.

Almost the entire history of man is polygynous. Monogamy is a relatively new social pratice going back 1,600 years, but only in western European societies. The majority of the world is still polygynous and the United Nations still confirms this. Outside of Europe, polygamy is still practiced by Christians – not only by Mormans – in North America, Africa and Asia.

Also, it should be in our minds that the practice of polygyny has never distorted or created social inbalances.When we look at every country which practices monogamy, whether it is West or Eastern Europe, it is observed that all national societies cannot maintain their populations, so that they are looking for ways to address “enforced” mongamous imbalances by bringing in migrants from foreign countries.

Secondly, anyone who thinks that monogamy is Christian concept is wholly deluded, because all Christian societies for the first 400 years in the ancient world were polygamous. That was until after Constantine died, when the Gnostics brought laws into place which decimated Christian polygamy. Monogamy is the product of Gnostism and not Christianity.

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