writing group and meandering thoughts.

[kippurbird]

So, the guy who wrote that horribly cliche piece of drivel turned out to be rather nice about it (and kinda hot >.> ) and wasn't at all like Miss Formulaic. He seemed to be very interested in our comments and didn't mind that I was horribly brutal. He asked questions about how to make it better and was generally everything a reviewer could want in a person. I look forward to his next installment with high hopes.

Now, on a completely random matter as I wait for the paint to dry on my birthday present for my brother (we exchange presents on our birthdays, don't ask, we just do). I think Polygamy should be made legal.

Why? You may ask. My response: Why not? How is it wrong to be married to more than one person. Where does it say that it's a morally wrong thing to do? If all parties that are involved are consenting adults, they why shouldn't they get married in any which way they please? No one is getting hurt by such a marriage. It's just a different way of doing so. In fact I think the fact that it is illegal is unconstitutional according to the Constitution of the United States. It does, after all, state that we are allowed religious freedom and there are religions that allow for polygamy. So, theoretically those who practice those religions should be allowed to practice that practice. >.> Also, there is the separation of church and state. This I think is important, because in the Protestant tradition (On which this country was founded in )polygamy is a Bad Thing (I don't know why as I'm not a Protestant nor a Christian) and so they have imposed their religious ideal upon the rest of the country. If the US wanted to fully espouse that they are a land of true religious freedom and that there is a true separation between church and state then polygamy should be legalized.

After all beyond religion there isn't a good reason not to. I have yet to hear an argument as to why we shouldn't allow it. It just isn't allowed.

Perhaps I should start a petition to get it on a ballot or something. =D

Comments

[prototypical]

I think it's got something to do with the romantic ideals of "one true love" that have been predominant in the European/Western world for hundreds of years. According to those forms of art, you're intended to love just one person for all eternity. And people automatically think that since it's not monogamy, it's bad, because anything that isn't what they believe is bad. There's probably also fear that "normal people" will pretend to be Mormon or Muslim in order to have multiple spouses.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

I suppose so, but I'm just sort of saying that regardless of your religion you should be able to marry how you want. Because there's nothing morally abhorrent about it, romantic ideals aside.

[dryaunda.livejournal.com]

I think it's got something to do with the romantic ideals of "one true love" that have been predominant in the European/Western world for hundreds of years.

Or at least since Vicky met Al. People of that time seriously embraced monogamy as a form of social one-upmanship against the nobility of the Regency era; "Look at us, we're not corrupt and decadent like they are!" The marriage of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert was the icon of OTP-mania.

[christinaathena.livejournal.com]

Polygamy was banned long before Victoria. Polygamy had been illegal since Roman times, in large part for political reasons. Marriage for the elite was about political alliances, and enforced monogamy prevented the elite from having to support many wives in a constant attempt to stay ahead of their rivals' multiple marital alliances.

[christinaathena.livejournal.com]

To be clearer, polygamy was banned in the Roman Empire, from which the Catholic Church inherited the ban (and added their own ban on divorce). Polygamy was still practiced by some of the Germanic tribes. Traditionally, European historians tended to sweep the polygamy of some of the early French and German rulers (inherited from the Germanic invaders) by only counting the wife who gave birth to the heir as a queen, demoting the others to mistresses.

[prototypical]

I learn something new every day, apparently.