Polygamy in America Today :: Marriage Mormon

Polygamy is a common, well-buried secret that is oft hard to leave and quiet down existsthroughout the country today. The Encyclopedia Americana defines polygamy as the formof brotherhood that permits a person to have more than oneness husband or wife (EncyclopediaAmericana). It has been known to exist at non-homogeneous times in certain societies. Polygamy is more common that most throng realize. In the Paper Polygamy andSame Sex Marriage, David Chambers states that in the autobiography of the country, by far themost significant and widespread practice of polygamy occurred among the Mormonsduring the afterward half(prenominal) of the 19th century. the Mormons believe that plural marriage isbiblical and approve of by God. In the New Testament, it was never deemed to beimmoral or even inferior in any way to monogamous onions. more(prenominal) Americans are practicing polygamy than one might think. Even moreinteresting, more than half of nonindustrialized socie ties still permits it. For both marriedmen and women, sexual relationships outside of the marriage are regarded as deeply sinful. Polygamy is a way around this. It is non a sin to sleep with your wife. It is understoodthat any Christian should not have more than one marriage registered with the state. Suchactions would surely let out tax codes and many other legal situations. Many do believe,however, that whole United States laws, which make registered plural marriage illegal, areunconstitutional and should be repealed. Carmen Thompson, former polygamist and author of Memories of a Plural wife,wrote that because plural marriage is against the law, those that still embrace it have, fordecades, kept their practice well cabalistic. According to Andrew Murr in his article,Secrets in the desert, Utah banned polygamy as a precondition of statehood in 1890, merely the practice of taking multiple wives has never disappeared (1). Thompson wrote that there is an estimated 30,000 polyg amists living in the states of Utah, and an equalnumber scattered around the rest of the United states (118). With so many involved inthis lucid crime it is only a matter of time before those who are trying to stay hidden are