You know ... this is all very interesting to me because whilst I'm  
quite liberal and believe that anyone has got the freedom to worship  
as they please, I also believe that  you must heed the dictum that no  
harm should befall others.  But as an American, I also advidly  
believe in the Bill of Rights which guarantee the freedom of religion  
to all Americans, and I also believe in the separation between church  
and state.

So where do we draw the line?  Polygamy by consenting adults  
theoretically should be OK (that is, if you go by the Bill of Rights)  
and the government shouldn't have the right to interfere.  On the  
other hand, the ethical scientific side of me cringes because of the  
higher possibility of genetic abnormalties and the higher risk of  
miscarriages, not to mention that if you try to limit the  
participation to a small group of people, practically speaking, you  
would run out of age-eligible wives fairly quickly - and thus that's  
probably the main reason so much polygamous activity is underaged.   
If you do the maths, this is obvious.

In any case, our society does not support such a structure which is  
good - but this does make for interesting discussions such as the one  
I had with David last night on this subject!

Kat


On 7 Sep 2006, at 16:46, Kendall David Corbett wrote:

Mike,

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