{"id":40,"date":"2006-03-21T16:42:34","date_gmt":"2006-03-21T21:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weeklyrob.dreamhosters.com\/?p=40"},"modified":"2006-03-21T16:42:34","modified_gmt":"2006-03-21T21:42:34","slug":"polygamy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Polygamy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 20px; padding-top: 0pt\" class=\"paragraph Body\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/biglove\/\" style=\"font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; font-family: 'Verdana', 'sans-serif'; opacity: 1.00\" title=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/biglove\/\">Big Love<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #000000; line-height: 20px; font-family: 'Verdana', 'sans-serif'; opacity: 1.00\"> is coming to an HBO channel near you, and has sparked a bit of conversation about polygamy. Is polygamy ok?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; color: #000000; line-height: 20px; font-family: 'Verdana', 'sans-serif'; opacity: 1.00\" class=\"paragraph Body\">Well, I mean, isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it? What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the moral reason that men shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be able to marry two women, or women marry two men? As long as all parties agree to the deal, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think I have a problem with it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; color: #000000; line-height: 20px; font-family: 'Verdana', 'sans-serif'; opacity: 1.00\" class=\"paragraph Body\">Does it work? Can anyone be happy in a polygamous marriage? I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know, but that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not really my problem. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s their problem, when they agree to it. (I do think that there shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be a second marriage without the first spouse agreeing to it.) And anyway, there are enough monogamous marriages that break up (or last unhappily for years) that we can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t point to happiness as our reason to outlaw it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 0pt; color: #000000; line-height: 20px; font-family: 'Verdana', 'sans-serif'; opacity: 1.00\" class=\"paragraph Body\">If anyone has a non-God reason that we shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t allow polygamy, let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Love is coming to an HBO channel near you, and has sparked a bit of conversation about polygamy. Is polygamy ok? Well, I mean, isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it? What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the moral reason that men shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be able to marry two women, or women marry two men? As long as all parties agree to the deal, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-humanity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}