Re: [UUPoly-L] Whoops, Overreaching

[licorice gumdrop <licorice.gumdrop@gmail.com>]

good grief.  i don't think her punctuation is misleading at all.   
read for comprehension, not nitpicking.

     - jenny

On May 18, 2007, at 5:56 PM, <catdeville@cox.net> wrote:

> ---- Darlene Pagano <dpagano@igc.org> wrote:
> > Thanks Cat, for reminding me of what I already know but *somehow*  
> > slid right over.
> > Let me re-write my sentence, making it yet more didactic. ;)
> >
> > > Polygamy means multiple spouses <which in the case of LDS  
> > > polygamy always means multiple WIVES,  who is always defined as a  
> > > women> for one man, never multiple partners for women <nor male  
> > > partners for men>)>>
>
> You still seem to be saying that polygamy never means multiple  
> partners for women, which is not the case (in general, no society  
> has predefined words for same sex marriage at this point, they  
> either accept same gender marriage as marriage, or they don't.)  In  
> my case I am female.  I was a polygamist.  (to clarify, I was not  
> legally a bigamist, as I did not attempt to legally marry both of  
> my husbands.  We had a declared marriage until my 2nd husband was  
> hand fasted to us, then we had a religious marriage - but that  
> equates with what the LDS folks do.) I had multiple partners.  I  
> may be the exception (although not necessarily within the poly  
> community - I know more group marriages than polygynists within the  
> poly community), but even so I prove that what you say is not  
> true.  Unless what you meant to say is that *within LDS* polygamy  
> never means multiple partners for women (in which case it's  
> primarily your punctuation which is misleading.)
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