tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19429730.post5287533035818131880..comments2023-07-06T19:51:29.939+08:00Comments on Ethereal Eclectic : Eldorado, TX: The Racism of the American GovernmentJed Carosaarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10775889983099808362noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19429730.post-23227233486179800282008-04-24T01:17:00.000+08:002008-04-24T01:17:00.000+08:00Now you find it absurd? I'd say OJ Simpson kind of...Now you find it absurd? I'd say OJ Simpson kind of established that! :-)<BR/><BR/>Actually, I found Shi'i in Dearborn, MI, taking advantage of the American system by doing muta'a marriage by not declaring it as marriage in the eyes of the government- only in the eyes of the religious community.Jed Carosaarihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10775889983099808362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19429730.post-2564369188817436672008-04-23T14:56:00.000+08:002008-04-23T14:56:00.000+08:00As long as a man is married to more than one woman...As long as a man is married to more than one woman who are not underage or in any way mentally abnormal, that is very fine with me; as long as the women involved consent and agree to that marriage.<BR/><BR/>If the US can legally support other kinds of cohabitations and consensual unions which to me are even more weird and unnatural - like that between homosexuals - I fail to understand why the American legal system can be so harsh to polygamists. That same system can allow people of the same sex not only to marry and live together, but does allow too the same people with similar sex to adopt children and bring up the children in such an environment where the 'parents' are both of the same sex. The US legal system can support that and yet come down so harshly and hard on these children from the Polygamist marriages.<BR/><BR/>In America, a man is allowed to keep any number of women he wants in even one room, as long as he is not married to them. The legal system supports that. The legal sysytem supports someone like Hugh Hefner keeping his many 'girlfriends' - all, old enough to be his grand daughters and changing them whenever he wishes; and yet that same legal system acts so harshly against polygamists. And is so merciless against the children involved. I just can't understand this. <BR/><BR/>In any way I look at this; it's incredible that this can happen in America. I used to think that the American legal sysytem is one of the very few that I considered with the least flaws in the world. Now, I find the American legal system too basurd.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com