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| 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.
A Feminist Studies Mormon Polygamy And, Remarkably, Finds That It Liberated the Wives
Posted in About Polygamy, Community, Family Life, Rights on August 2, 2011| 2 Comments »
- 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 peculiar institution of early Mormon families—polygamy. The great-great-granddaughter of a man with four wives, Dr. Burgess-Olson, 33, studied the diaries kept by Mormon pioneer women between 1847 and 1885. She followed up her ground-breaking research by editing Sister Saints, a study of 19th-century Mormon women, published by Brigham Young University. A confirmed feminist and mother of two sons and two daughters, Burgess-Olson recently completed summer training at Fort Sam Houston as a major in the U.S. Army Reserve. She is a school psychologist in Provo, Utah, where her husband, Eric Olson, 34, an Egyptologist, teaches at Brigham Young. Dr. Burgess-Olson talked with Linda Witt of PEOPLE about her research.
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 paradox of polygamy I: Why most Americans are polygamous
Posted in About Polygamy, Family Life, Rights on August 2, 2011| 4 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, and even morally wrong, hence the attraction of Big Love or the titillation of the Jeffs’ trial. But polygyny is not that exotic; many — even most — Americans are already in polygynous marriages.
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.
We may not like Polygamy, but Decriminalization makes sense
Posted in About Polygamy, Community, Family Life, Government, Rights on December 17, 2010| 1 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 the reason is, but the mountains certainly seem to attract a great variety of philosophical extremes in the people there.
I met so many different people, with so many different philosophies, and that certainly included many different beliefs about marriage. I met some people who believed that marriage was no business of the government, and they followed an aboriginal custom of the Paux (spelling?). It is a simple custom: The two in love would decide if they wanted to marry and would make their covenants to each other and announce their marriage at a community function, or to their families.
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 the current law are now having to try to show that polygamy, in and of itself, always and necessarily hurts people. I don’t believe they’re succeeding, but I do see this as a promising first step toward creating a rational and effective legal strategy for dealing with abuse in polygamous communities.
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 on conjugal socialization are fast evolving toward a more liberal stance. Freedom of choice regarding consenting adult relationships is the new trend in our modern world.
~Submitted by HJD
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