[BartSimpson]

Good posts all the way around.

While I'm not a fan of these people, their practice of multiple marriages among legally consenting individuals should not be prohibited especially in a country that no longer defines marriage as between one man and one woman.

If the traditional definition of marriage no longer suits Canada then embrace the brave new world you've created and accept the ramifications of it.

That said, another good argument for allowing it comes from an acquaintance of mine who is living in a polygamous (non-Mormon) situation. She lives with an older married couple and while she isn't legally married they did form an LLC to keep their assets under that gives them the legal equivalence of a marriage, as best it can be.

Her comment to me one day was, "If I say I'm Steve's mistress everyone is okay with it, but if I say I'm his wife they call the police."

The comment underlined the hypocrisy that an awful lot of people live polygamous lives even though they may not call it that.

So if we prosecute the people who do this and live as families are we also going to prosecute the people who cheat on their spouses? Because that's polygamy, too, if you stop and think about it.

[HyperionTheEvil]

Newsbot Newsbot:

Title: B.C. polygamist leader claims religious persecution
Category: Religion
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2009-01-08 22:22:15
Canadian

This is the problem with religion, you can defend just about anythig with it. God told me to stick my penis in that little boy- honest.

For the record i dont give a damn if you want 1 or 30 wives or husbands, As long as you can support your own family without beg a welfare bum, and keep your hands off the kids its all yours.

[Gunnair]

HyperionTheEvil HyperionTheEvil:

Newsbot Newsbot:

Title: B.C. polygamist leader claims religious persecution
Category: Religion
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2009-01-08 22:22:15
Canadian

This is the problem with religion, you can defend just about anythig with it. God told me to stick my penis in that little boy- honest.

Well that was absolutley idiotic and irrelevent.

[RUEZ]

Gunnair Gunnair:

HyperionTheEvil HyperionTheEvil:

This is the problem with religion, you can defend just about anythig with it. God told me to stick my penis in that little boy- honest.

Well that was absolutley idiotic and irrelevent.

Yes and typical of the atheist. Always reverts to the pedophile argument.

[roger-roger]

RUEZ RUEZ:

Gunnair Gunnair:

HyperionTheEvil HyperionTheEvil:

This is the problem with religion, you can defend just about anythig with it. God told me to stick my penis in that little boy- honest.

Well that was absolutley idiotic and irrelevent.

Yes and typical of the atheist. Always reverts to the pedophile argument.

Typical of the theist to blanket all atheists as the same from one anti religious remark.

This is fun, can someone do one on me now!

[Gunnair]

Eisensapper Eisensapper:

RUEZ RUEZ:

Gunnair Gunnair:

Well that was absolutley idiotic and irrelevent.

Yes and typical of the atheist. Always reverts to the pedophile argument.

Typical of the theist to blanket all atheists as the same from one anti religious remark.

This is fun, can someone do one on me now!

Typical land stoker to blanket all theists as people who blanket athiests because of anti-religious.....

What the hell was I saying?

[RUEZ]

Eisensapper Eisensapper:

Typical of the theist to blanket all atheists as the same from one anti religious remark.

This is fun, can someone do one on me now!

Just giving it back to you guys.

[Brenda]

RUEZ RUEZ:

Just giving it back to you guys.

It ain't fair

[HyperionTheEvil]

Gunnair Gunnair:

HyperionTheEvil HyperionTheEvil:

Newsbot Newsbot:

Title: B.C. polygamist leader claims religious persecution
Category: Religion
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2009-01-08 22:22:15
Canadian

This is the problem with religion, you can defend just about anythig with it. God told me to stick my penis in that little boy- honest.

Well that was absolutley idiotic and irrelevent.

He's claiming religious persecution, it's otally relevant. Were better off simply removing religious 'protections' for the charter since so many of these so-called religions preach hatred themselves.

If they want 10 wives i don't care, its the kids that are a worry. And considering these asshats are FDLS, kids are fair game, hence the relgious persucution shpeel

[HyperionTheEvil]

RUEZ RUEZ:

Gunnair Gunnair:

HyperionTheEvil HyperionTheEvil:

This is the problem with religion, you can defend just about anythig with it. God told me to stick my penis in that little boy- honest.

Well that was absolutley idiotic and irrelevent.

Yes and typical of the atheist. Always reverts to the pedophile argument.

Or the homopphbic one, or the anti-semtic one, or the god told me to fly those planes into those towers one. Take your pick, religion is an equal opportunity killing ideology

[Gunnair]

HyperionTheEvil HyperionTheEvil:

Gunnair Gunnair:

Well that was absolutley idiotic and irrelevent.

He's claiming religious persecution, it's otally relevant.

You knee jerk reference linking religion and pedophilia is completely irrelevent... again.

[HyperionTheEvil]

Gunnair Gunnair:

HyperionTheEvil HyperionTheEvil:

Gunnair Gunnair:

Well that was absolutley idiotic and irrelevent.

He's claiming religious persecution, it's otally relevant.

You knee jerk reference linking religion and pedophilia is completely irrelevent... again.

Read the thread header...."religous persecution". And again for the record i dont care how many wives he has, it's about the children which the FDLS has a record of abusing.

The best thing to do is remove charter rights protectin "Religion" since religion itself preaches hatred in any number of ways. Why protect a myth that says it's okay to hate a sub-group or other when the whole point of the charter is to protect everyone?

[Gunnair]

HyperionTheEvil HyperionTheEvil:

Read the thread header...."religous persecution". And again for the record i dont care how many wives he has, it's about the children which the FDLS has a record of abusing.

The best thing to do is remove charter rights protectin "Religion" since religion itself preaches hatred in any number of ways. Why protect a myth that says it's okay to hate a sub-group or other when the whole point of the charter is to protect everyone?

$1:

God told me to stick my penis in that little boy- honest.

Smoke and mirrors doesn't hide your original example - which sets the idiotic tone of your argument.

[HyperionTheEvil]

Gunnair Gunnair:

HyperionTheEvil HyperionTheEvil:

Read the thread header...."religous persecution". And again for the record i dont care how many wives he has, it's about the children which the FDLS has a record of abusing.

The best thing to do is remove charter rights protectin "Religion" since religion itself preaches hatred in any number of ways. Why protect a myth that says it's okay to hate a sub-group or other when the whole point of the charter is to protect everyone?

$1:

God told me to stick my penis in that little boy- honest.

Smoke and mirrors doesn't hide your original example - which sets the idiotic tone of your argument.

[quote]


Picutres are amusing, try addresing the question that the leader of this 'religion' is using the charter to defend himself on charges of polygamy and child abuse.

Warren jeffs tried the same thing with, oddly enough he was FDLS too.


You lose

[BartSimpson]

HyperionTheEvil HyperionTheEvil:

Read the thread header...."religous persecution". And again for the record i dont care how many wives he has, it's about the children which the FDLS has a record of abusing.

Read the article. The charges are about how many wives he has, not about their respective ages. Child abuse is not at all the issue here.