Reply #76: What about facts?

[bowens43]

You keep saying that polygamy would be harmful to children and to families but you don't seem to have anything to back that up. Interracial marriage was at one time 'harmful to children' , gay marriage is considered by most to be 'harmful to children'. We know that interracial marriage is NOT harmful to children, we know that gay marriage is NOT harmful to children. I suspect that polygamy, when it existed, was not harmful for children. Do you have any evidence that it's harmful to children or is that just a feeling that you have?

How would polygamy 'CHANGE the institution of marriage'? Why would that be a bad thing? How would polygamy harm the children? Seems to me the bigger the family unit the better. The loss of a single member through death or divorce would have less of an impact if a larger support structure was in place.

I'm asking specifically how polygamy would harm traditional marriage, children or families. This same argument was used to oppose interracial marriage and is now being used to oppose gay marriage. Why would that argument be invalid for interracial marriage and gay marriage yet valid for polygamy?