May 09, 2006
Fun With Polygamy
OK, so I watched the HBO drama "Big Love" for the first time last week. Pretty good show, in a Desperate Housewives-y kinda way. It's certainly spurred a lot of media hoo-hah about polygamy...Tucker Carlson, Rita Cosby (also known as Smokey McHuskeyvoice), yadda.
Here's what I don't get about polygamy, though. Granted, the TV show doesn't answer the burning legal questions that the talking heads beat to a bloody pulp so maybe I need to pay more attention to Greta Van Man-face when she talks about it... However, Bill Paxton and Chloe Sevigny give ya enough info on the show to make you wonder about the whole polygamy thing. To wit: polygamists have a legal marriage to Wifey #1, but all future wives are really just shack-ups (legally, anyway) with no legal rights. Big Daddy supports the "wives" and their offspring, but only Marriage #1 is legal and only Wifey #1 is entitled to all the goodies that marriage brings.
So...the question is...how is the Mormon polygamist any different than almost any player in the NBA? They have wives and shack-ups and gobs and gobs of kiddies they support, but nobody hounds them out of Utah or other super-religious states. Somebody 'splain that one to me.
And we won't EVEN confuse the issue by talking about Hugh Hefner, who has a passel of women living under the same roof, supporting them, and taking turns in a different bedroom every night.
Posted by Krispy_Kreme at May 9, 2006 09:04 AM
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maybe it would be bad if the NBA player were a mormon.
Posted by: McBlogger at May 9, 2006 12:45 PM
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