Polygamy was officially discontinued in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in 1890. Those groups which continue the practice in Utah and elsewhere have no association with us ... and most of their practitioners have never been among our members ... It will be regrettable if this program, by making polygamy the subject of entertainment, minimizes the seriousness of that problem.
Quotes about polygamy (16 Quotes)
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem.
In an essay 10 years ago, I pointed out that it is utterly logical for polygamy rights to follow gay rights. After all, if traditional marriage is defined as the union of (1) two people of (2) opposite gender, and if, as advocates of gay marriage insist, the gender requirement is nothing but prejudice, exclusion and an arbitrary denial of one's autonomous choices in love, then the first requirement - the number restriction (two and only two) - is a similarly arbitrary, discriminatory and indefensible denial of individual choice.
The right wing would love nothing more than for us to spend all of our airtime discussing distractions such as polygamy, bestiality and other from their point of view doomsday scenarios rather than engage the public about committed same-sex couples bein
POLYGAMY, n. A house of atonement, or expiatory chapel, fitted with several stools of repentance, as distinguished from monogamy, which has but one.
The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy
We do restrict so-called reproductive freedom. We do not allow polygamy, we do not allow incest, we do not allow the buying and selling of babies.
Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.
If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual gay sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything.
When you and I and the average Joe on the street think about polygamy, it's usually what we've read about it -- the compounds beyond city limits, the child brides, women being kept in a cultish fashion. The creators saw the show for what it was ... kind of a weird way to refract contemporary mores about marriage.
When you're working with a series that's as interesting as one about polygamy, you want to make sure it raises people's curiosity.
No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.
If you convert marriage to merely the placing of a license on consenting adults that are in a committed relationship, or who love each other, then there is no logical line that can be drawn between gay marriage and polygamy. Gay marriage clearly opens the door to polygamy.
In pious times 'ere priest craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin When man, on many, multiply'd his kind Ere one to one was, cursedly, confined When Nature prompted, and no law deny'd Promiscuous use of concubine and bride.
The government doesn't really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I'd really heard about polygamists.
The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle -- a mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game. If the right pressure could be applied to him, he would be cheerfully in favor of polygamy, astrology or cannibalism.