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

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

Am I? I just feel like I'm horribly brutal with my reviews.

Relationships are difficult in any sort of situation. But they're always workoutable. Or not. But that's why you can get divorced. I just look at traditional marriages where you have things like spousal abuse and those people who get married and then divorced a few years later. Those are just as problematic. As for laws. It's just a mater of creating the correct laws that actually make sense, which is utterly impossible now a days. But eh.

[christinaathena.livejournal.com]

Many people practice polyamory quite happily.

There are a lot of advantages to it: more adults to share the housework and any child-rearing. If one of the adults in a traditional monogamous marriage dies, that's half, or more, of the family's income eliminated. In a family with traditional sex roles its even worse, as if it's the father that's the bulk of income, if it's the mother, that's the child-rearer and housekeeper who's gone. Even in illness, there's only one other adult to take care of the ill one (assuming the other one isn't sick also), if you have, say, 5 adults involved, then there's 4 people to take care of the ill individual.