Recent content by ho hum

Must be eating solid food.

Not directly... No big deal, we're on the net and everybody is 6'3" and 260 lbs of muscle.... It was on the bottom of the page of the current thread about polygamy on the Religion and Ethics forum.

Okay, so I'm a doofus because I'm new, saw the thread on the bottom of the page and didn't read the dates and posted. Thanks for the welcome.

If you want to argue polygamy from a "Biblical" perspective, you would be hard pressed to deny that it was a common and sanctioned practice in Israel. If you want to do the same for homosexual marriages, you couldn't do it. If you want to remove religion from the argument, you can do...

Part of accepting polygamy today is that our society's notion of romantic love. These marriages do not pay much homage to the concept of romance (if you can really define it) and we would have similar problems with other marriage arrangements that flew in the face of the concept. What to...

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Is having a child marry and having sex prior to the legal age of consent hurting them?

To call something wrong does not automatically mean that I think it should be made illegal. That was done over a century ago by the US Supreme Court when the LDS church challenged it in it's battle to continue the practice. What is hard to understand is that when you live in such a group...

My wife and I have been discussing this topic also. She seems to think it is wrong for a number of reasons: 1. She feels it is demeaning to women. 2. She feels that any woman that is empowered would not accept the arrangement because it is not in most women's nature to desire to share...