'I Would Never...Go Back to Being a Monogamous Wife'

An excerpt from 'Voices in Harmony: Contemporary Women Celebrate Plural Marriage,' written and compiled by Mary Batchelor, Marianne Watson, and Anne Wilde, was published on the multi-religious site, BeliefNet. It demonstrated that women in polygamous relationships in the United States would not give up what they had. It is all-too-easy to judge that which we don't understand. But it would be far better to take the word of those who know from experience.

I love how this piece begins, "I would never ever, worlds without end, even if I could control all events, willingly go back to being a monogamous wife... the blessings I enjoy... are enough to cause me to become a she-bear when someone threatens them."

Is polygamy, or more precistly "polygny," really that great? Read for yourself.

NOTE: It will need to be constantly repeated on this page that any marriage must be consensual, with other adults, and that welfare fraud is a crime. Tom Green and Muslim arguments just won't fly here. I'm not defending that. -- M.M.