Interesting - is there a progressive argument against polygamy?

[get the red out]

10. "bringing into the light"

You can't talk about bringing these cultures into the light while legalizing bringing up girls to be slaves. That is unconscionable. Laws exist beyond enforcement value (and these laws could be enforced better if the religious people out there were willing do to so); laws exist to say "NO, our society does not condone this abuse". We supposedly have human rights in this country, we need to fucking stand for that. To legalize young girls being brought up to be brood mares and sex slaves without access to knowledge of their rights as citizens would be to say as a nation, that we just don't give one flying fuck about women's rights, human rights, equality, justice, true religious freedom, and actual human beings. And everytime I see people who support legalizing these polygamous communities I honestly think that as a nation, we just might not stand for much at all. But that does not make me support legalization.

You cannot be against this while endorsing it. To legalize it would make the status-quo even easier. If law enforcement were not biased in favor of these communities in their locations then there would be better enforcement.

The analogy to drug use FAILS because drug users are not commonly brought up to abuse drugs from birth, are not told they cannot do anything else in their lives, are not separated from non-drug users in enclosed communities, and will not be brought back to their masters by police if they decide to get treatment for drug abuse. I do not support the "war on drugs", it is a completely different circumstance.

Interesting that someone calling himself AtheistCrusader would be so supportive of Religious enslavement, but then I guess if we're mostly talking just female slaves, many people in this country are, or at least benign to it. I guess the theoretical few is far more important than the real multitudes in human rights for many people.