XPost: alt.law-enforcement, alt.atheism, talk.politics.guns   
   XPost: alt.survival   
   From: fmhlaw@comcast.net   
      
   On 10/1/2014 6:36 PM, Scout wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   > "Just Wondering"  wrote in message   
   > news:542c8bee$0$16342$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net...   
   >> On 10/1/2014 2:38 PM, Mitchell Holman wrote:   
   >>> Just Wondering  wrote in   
   >>> news:542c5f8d$0$1917$882e7ee2   
   >>> @usenet-news.net:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On 10/1/2014 11:01 AM, RD Sandman wrote:   
   >>>>> Mitchell Holman  wrote in   
   >>>>> news:XnsA3B8D3316F71Anoemailattnet@216.196.121.131:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> It sounds like in his book, someone who points out a virtually   
   >>>>>>> universal historical truth as old as the institution of marriage   
   >>>>>>> itself, that contradicts what in his mind is "how things should be",   
   >>>>>>> is a bigot making silly claims.   
   >>>>>>      What is that "historical truth"?   
   >>>>>>      Arranged marriage?   
   >>>>>>      Forced marriage?   
   >>>>>>      Polygamous marriage?   
   >>>>>>      Child marriage?   
   >>>>> Among others.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>> Do y'all really lose track of a thread's subject so quickly?  I had   
   >>>> pointed out that marriage is between a man and a woman.   
   >>>   
   >>> Or a man and a girl. Or a widow and her   
   >>> brother in law. Or a man and many women.   
   >>>   
   >> All of which are just special cases of a man and a woman:   
   >> A man and a young woman.   
   >> A man and a widowed woman.   
   >> A man and a woman.  The same man and a (second) woman.   
   >> Never a man and a man.  Never a woman and a woman.   
   >   
   > Really? If you have a man and two women who are married.......aren't the   
   > two women also married to each other as well as the man?   
   >   
   Nope.   
      
   > If you have 6 men and 9 women in a group marriage..   
    >   
   I'm not aware of any actual group marriages.  Polygamy is not a group   
   marriage.  Do you have a real world example in mind of a community that   
   actually engages in group marriages?   
      
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