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Should People Be Allowed To Be Married To More Than One Person

  • 27-10-2013 11:47PM
    #1
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    Well? I think it's an archaic and unjust idea that marriage is between two people.

    Should People Be Allowed To Be Married To More Than One Person 232 votes

    Yes
    0% 0 votes
    No
    43% 101 votes
    Don't Care
    56% 131 votes


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  • #2
    Lane Thoughtless Beekeeper
    Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Lane Thoughtless Beekeeper


    Sure why not


  • #3
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,533 ✭✭✭SV


    If they're all consenting then sure. I don't really see the point, though


  • #4
    Timmyctc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,825 ✭✭✭Timmyctc


    I think there was a guy who preached those ideals and as far as I remember. He got on quite well as a result
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Joseph_Smith


  • #5
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Jesus no. One is enough.


  • #6
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,554 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    adults consenting to weird **** is more important than other people finding that **** weird or offensive


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  • #7
    greenflash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 499 ✭✭greenflash


    Any man who willingly has more than one mother in law should be sectioned.


  • #8
    sonny jim bob jones
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 175 ✭✭sonny jim bob jones


    Why do they need to marry?


  • #9
    IM0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    ah youve been watching neet the polygamists havent you


  • #10
    theblaqueguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 401 ✭✭theblaqueguy


    Yes if someone.wants 6 wives then let him have as many as he wants I don't see any problem with it


  • #11
    Talib Fiasco
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,428 ✭✭✭Talib Fiasco


    Won't somebody please think of the children?


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  • #12
    marshbaboon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭marshbaboon


    Absolutely not. Think of the tax credits they'd receive.


  • #13
    delthedriver
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,955 ✭✭✭delthedriver


    Whatever you are into I guess?:)


  • #14
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    marshbaboon wrote: »
    Absolutely not. Think of the tax credits they'd receive.

    Exactly! I'd be all over that!


  • #15
    IM0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    I love the way people think you can only love one person at a time, they obviously have no birth family. I mean ffs why is that so hard to get your head around :confused: selfish ***** the lot of them


  • #16
    Liamario
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,096 ✭✭✭Liamario


    Government and general public should in no way be involved in the personal lives of consenting adults. Marriage is a human construction and should have no tangible effect on others.


  • #17
    The Big Smoke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 402 ✭✭The Big Smoke


    I don't even..


  • #18
    pharmaton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭pharmaton


    sure if a woman wants to have six husbands why not, I'd say she would be great fun making six dinners every day. and sandwiches, don't forget the sandwiches.


  • #19
    IM0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    there should be a disclaimer for this thread. you cant post if your wife is standing behind you with a rolling pin


  • #20
    miss tickle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 242 ✭✭miss tickle


    greenflash wrote: »
    Any man who willingly has more than one mother in law should be sectioned.

    but think of all the sisters in law.:D


  • #21
    IM0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    The Big Smoke wrote: »
    I don't even..

    I do, in church while bashing the bishop.. no thats not a euphamism


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  • #22
    Too Tough To Die
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭Too Tough To Die


    Why not? The sanctity of marriage is already well on its way to being erased.


  • #23
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,533 ✭✭✭SV


    pharmaton wrote: »
    sure if a woman wants to have six husbands why not, I'd say she would be great fun making six dinners every day. and sandwiches, don't forget the sandwiches.

    You're single aren't you? Very..very single


  • #24
    pharmaton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭pharmaton


    SV wrote: »
    You're single aren't you? Very..very single
    yep :(


  • #25
    BonkeyDonker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 571 ✭✭✭BonkeyDonker


    miss tickle wrote: »
    but think of all the sisters in law.:D

    Who you could marry as well.


  • #26
    canadianwoman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 811 ✭✭✭canadianwoman


    marshbaboon wrote: »
    Absolutely not. Think of the tax credits they'd receive.

    You must be a politician. :)


  • #27
    hansfrei
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 915 ✭✭✭hansfrei


    No voters have a slight lead. AH is.obviously full of Religeous fuddy-duddies and is way out of touch with the common people.


    *sigh*


  • #28
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,244 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    No. Not for any "moral" reasons (I don't have Morals, only Ethics), but because it's a throwback to some of the worst periods of history, before modern civilisation. Look at the parts of the world where it's still practiced: those are the parts of the world where might makes right, where the "big man" gets his way, women are subjugated and abused, and the common man has no chance of improving his status in life.

    Government resting upon the will and universal suffrage of the people has no anchorage except in the people's intelligence.

    — Grover Cleveland



  • #29
    Lane Thoughtless Beekeeper
    Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Lane Thoughtless Beekeeper


    bnt wrote: »
    No. Not for any "moral" reasons (I don't have Morals, only Ethics), but because it's a throwback to some of the worst periods of history, before modern civilisation. Look at the parts of the world where it's still practiced: those are the parts of the world where might makes right, where the "big man" gets his way, women are subjugated and abused, and the common man has no chance of improving his status in life.

    Eh?
    I heard a hammer was used to kill someone once, ban all hammers?


  • #30
    Jezek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 737 ✭✭✭Jezek


    Should be allowed but would be a logistical nightmare. Might as well do away with legal privileges of marriage and let people do whatever the **** they please.


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  • #31
    clairefontaine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,390 ✭✭✭clairefontaine


    You have a legal mess and a half.

    You'd have to strip spousal citizesnship and visa entitlements.

    You'd have to strip next of kin rights.

    You'd have to strip any automatic insurance benefits.

    You'd have an absolute chaos in the family courts between paternity testing and custody fights as well as child support.

    Its bad enough people set up new families before divorcing a previous spouse due to stringent divorce laws.

    Come to think of it in Ireland, it kind of already is ok to be married to more than one person.


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