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Old 12-19-2007, 04:25 AM   #11
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And since you are both black and a woman, you'll know all about it, right? . . .
This isn't even a close issue. The whole civilized world agrees with me that polygamy, like slavery, is a relic of antiquity and maximally oppressive of women. In fact, has polygamy ever not gone hand in hand with child sexual abuse? Incest as well haunts polygamous societies. Never in the history of the world has polygamy not been taboo in advanced civilizations with representative governments. It didn't exist even in the Roman Empire and one of Christianity's great contributins was to eliminate it in Europe among the erstwhile pagans. It speaks volumes that today polygamy is prevalent mostly in radical Islam and indigenous societies (aside from those disgusting Orthodox Mormons).
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