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   "Scout"  wrote in message news:m0ib1f$2sv$1@dont-email.me...   
      
      
      
   "deep" wrote in message news:8lap2aleg8u57h9eb5jg3rid0m6tma9u9b@4ax.com...   
   > On Wed, 1 Oct 2014 20:53:29 -0400, "Scout"   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >>>> No, think about it for a second. Even by your own example, a man and a   
   >>>> woman marry....now THEY (as a group) marry another woman. That's a   
   >>>> marriage but it no longer consists of one man and one woman, but rather   
   >>>> it's a man and a woman marrying another woman.   
   >>>>   
   >>> No, NO, NO!!! That's NOT what happens.  In polygyny it's NOT a man and a   
   >>> woman marrying another woman.  Its' a man marrying a woman, then the   
   >>> same   
   >>> man marrying another woman.   
   >>   
   >>So you're saying that if one wife has no duties, obligations, commitments,   
   >>etc to the other wife?   
   >>   
   >>That if one wife dies the other wife doesn't inherit anything, doesn't get   
   >>any custody over the children of the other wife, etc?   
   >   
   > Not legally, no.   
      
   # Really? So where polygamy is legal you claim that one wife has none of   
   these   
   # things?   
      
   >  The states do not recognize any marriages after the   
   > first one.   
      
   # And you think the current marriage laws in the 50 US states constitute the   
   # sum of law for the whole world, much less throughout it's history?   
      
   Not a mormon, but I understand that only one man and wife are legally   
   married.  The rest of the marriages may or may not be recognized by the   
   particular branch of the church, but none beyond the first have any legal   
   standing.   
      
   If one is to dick around with the definition of marriage, logic would   
   indicate that the additional marriages should have legal standing.   
      
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