B.C. Supreme Court upholds ban on polygamy

Retired_Can_Soldier

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I think the Government has got bigger problems and let's look at it this way. In Vancouver the Indian Community has arranged marriages all the time and when things don't work out the send them to India to be disappeared. Then we've got the whole Sharia Law honour killing bullcrap to deal with. You know, walk ten feet behind me, put on this bee keeper outfit and if you talk back to me your going into a canal with your car. Then we have these weiners who say they are all about God, but really they're just all about having sex with kids.

While I don't care if you have one wife two husbands or if your into swinging or swapping.

I really think that once you open this flood gate you are going to be swamped with all sorts of charter challenges
 

Kreskin

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Rather than marriage why not start a society? Have a President, Secretary, Treasurer and Directors/Officers. Make motions, keep minutes and table new business.
 

Retired_Can_Soldier

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Rather than marriage why not start a society? Have a President, Secretary, Treasurer and Directors/Officers. Make motions, keep minutes and table new business.

I've never been a polygamist and honestly only take my cues from BIG LOVE, but I think what you are saying here actually applies in some communities.

So you're taking it back, right?

No I'm not taking it back. I'll admit that I thought you were lipping off about Afghanistan or Iraq because that is the baggage you usually drag from thread to thread. That's what makes you predictable. As to your original statement you said. That Polygamy was in the bible and I countered that so was stoning. So if that was your way of trying to one up me you have a really retarded way of going about it.

And by the way Goph, I'm not arguing against polygamy.
 

VanIsle

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It deserved it, so you're welcome.

And yes, it's my opinion that cheating is something done behind your partner's back. I don't quite get why anyone would view it any other way. If your partner consents to relations outside of yours, it's honest and in the open. Cheating may be what someone else calls it because they can't wrap their own minds around you being okay with it, but that doesn't MAKE it cheating.



I doubt it. DeBeers stands to profit hugely from the idea that love is available only to one soul mate, and that you ought to spend every possible cent making your life with that person something out of a Disney movie. I doubt a polygamist would be spending 3 months wages per partner. lol.
No I didn't. I just gave an opinion. I did not say or do anything vulgar but - whatever.
 

gopher

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My reference sucked? How dense and nitwitted! My reference came from the Bible which is being misinterpreted by so many anti polygyny bigots. Clearly the Bible allows multiple marriages despite what so many people believe. The point being that polygynists have this as proof that it should be permissible.
 

gerryh

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My reference sucked? How dense and nitwitted! My reference came from the Bible which is being misinterpreted by so many anti polygyny bigots. Clearly the Bible allows multiple marriages despite what so many people believe. The point being that polygynists have this as proof that it should be permissible.


and as been pointed out, the Bible also allowed stoning, along with an eye for an eye.
 

JLM

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My reference sucked? How dense and nitwitted! My reference came from the Bible which is being misinterpreted by so many anti polygyny bigots. Clearly the Bible allows multiple marriages despite what so many people believe. The point being that polygynists have this as proof that it should be permissible.

I wonder if the Bible is a good "manual" for life in 2011! :smile:
 

talloola

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How does legal polygamy move a country towards being 'third world'?

If you remove the optics of Bountiful from the picture, it seems to be the opposite. IMHO.

I don't know, sounded good at the time.

Polygamists move here now as it is. You'd prefer their wives have no legal protection or rights? That makes no sense. And contrary to what many people think, few immigrants moving here are 'third world'.... you're thinking refugees.

no, i'm thinking of people who would move to canada because of the right to live the life of polygamy, otherwise they
wouldn't be interested, they will live somewhere else where it is legal.
I don't want people like that coming here, that is my feelings about such a life style, it includes the
raising of children who would automatically become the same, and the beat goes on.

just my opinion.
 

karrie

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No I didn't. I just gave an opinion. I did not say or do anything vulgar but - whatever.

I never said I gave you a negative for being vulgar. I gave you a negative for a personal attack on a member. Vulgarity is very little concern to me versus lack of civility and attacking someone on a family level.
 

talloola

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An adult man can't marry a 14 year old in Canada right now, you need a system like Bountiful to do it and that has been made illegal. It can no longer be gussied up as freedom of religon to marry 14 year olds. This was a good decision.

I don't think that has much clout in a place like bountifull, they can put whatever they want on paper,
and deny anyone was 14 when they married.
 

Nuggler

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Anyone who supports polygamy should be castrated and a bible shoved up their ass.

That'll teach them love of god and respect for the two person nuclear family.
 

Cliffy

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Anyone who supports polygamy should be castrated and a bible shoved up their ass.

That'll teach them love of god and respect for the two person nuclear family.
The nuclear family is dysfunctional. It is an unnatural arrangement. We are essentially tribal beings (extended families). Nuclear families were unheard of before the industrial revolution.

Bible up the ass! Man that would hurt. Did you get off the wrong side of the bed?