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Old 04-21-2008, 07:01 PM
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Originally Posted by prisonchaplain View Post
It's okay to teach your children that polygamy is God's will, and that teenage girls should form harems for 50-year old spiritual patriarchs. But, when you actually bring these teachings into action, you engage in illegal marriages, statutory rape, and you are labeled a pedaphile.
Good point, however I also suspect there is harm being done in the teaching, that helps perpetuate this abusive situation.

Regarding rights being trampeled, I would counter that the inherent right of these Potentates to maintain their preditory harems, would be a legitimatized only by virtue of admitting there is a right of these minors to be abused.
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