XPost: alt.law-enforcement, alt.atheism, talk.politics.guns   
   XPost: alt.survival   
   From: davidjhughes.tx@netzero.com   
      
   On 10/1/2014 7:49 PM, Just Wondering wrote:   
   > 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?   
   >   
   >   
      
   Pre Christian Hawaii, several tribes in Australia, the Toda people of   
   Nepal, Southern India, most of the tribes living in the Himalayan   
   Mountains, The Omahas and other Sioux tribes of North America, just to   
   name a few.  Currently only common in Australia and the Himalayas, due   
   the the restrictions of laws influenced by Western European culture.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)