I do...maybe

I have decided to share a fear with all my readers this week. I can see people already trying to guess what it is; that is so cute. Hush, it is not the fear of commitment; you are going to spoil this for everyone.

I will admit that I am one that falls hard when I finally get there and no I am not talking about an inner ear/balance issue. Which is kind of scary in my eyes because I am afraid it would lead me into polygamy; I know some adorable ladies and I fear that if I were to get married to one of them I would like it so much I would want another. If one is great than two would have to be better and why stop at just two? Anyone who has seen the inside of my gun safe knows I don’t have a commitment issue, it is more of a not knowing when enough is enough. The way I see it marriage would just be the apex of the slippery slope that ends with my building a gigantic compound in the middle of Montana so that I might live peacefully with my thirty-two wives.

Marriage is a huge problem in today’s society. Some people take it very lightly as a simple commitment no different than a car lease, others treat it more like an ARM (adjustable rate Mortgage) and there are the few that still see it as grafting. I won’t even pretend to be an expert on the subject, but I am pretty sure I know the same thing everybody else knows. I don’t want to digress too much as I am not going to get off on a tangent, but I wanted to make the point that Marriage is the sand in the oyster.

Now I am going to complicate Marriage a little so I can go off on polygamy. I don’t have anything against a fellow having two wives, I am sure there are good reasons to allow such ‘religious’ freedoms. I don’t even mind so much if he should choose to be greedy and have three, four, five, etc, wives; I think if that is really how you would want to live, than find a country that allows that religious freedom and relocate. My issue is with those individuals who call polygamy a protected ‘religious’ freedom and try to stand behind the First Amendment. I don’t think that polygamy is anymore a protected religious freedom than owning a suicide bomber vest, but maybe that is just my interpretation.

Polygamy is nothing more than an excuse for sexual predation; Grown men who take teenage girls to be their additional wife are just sexual predators who are abusing the power given to religion in the first amendment to further their abnormal desires. I am not sure what I find to be more revolting, the fact that the government is lax in taking a stand against them or the fact that they even think this should be a religious freedom. They don’t even stop there; they will even go as far as to take their own siblings and/or offspring to be an additional wife. From where I stand and understand the law, albeit I am not a law scholar, there are multiple legality issues here.

The flip side of Polygamy is that there are some who take multiple wives in much the same way that most guys will obtain a wife. If two women(or men for that matter), who are of legal age and sound mind, decide to share a husband(wife) with the only law being broken the law of singularity, is that such a bad thing? When good spouses are so difficult to find that might not be a bad choice, but is that the exception to the rule? Could there be such a thing as a happily marred couple that involves three people?

I am not sure where this rant is going, other than I think we really need to re-evaluate our stance on Polygamy. Is it really a healthy religious freedom between multiple consenting adults or is it just sexual abuse and predation of underage women.