Polygamy

Over 80,000 natives of the United States practice polygamy, although it is prohibited. Polygamy is the custom of having more than one wife or husband at the same time. Polygamy ranges from one man having numerous wives, to one woman having several husbands. It is more likely for a man to have multiple wives, than for a woman to have multiple husbands. Polygamy is discriminated against because people do not see eye to eye with polygamists’ life choices. Adults should be free to practice polygamy because there should not be a limit to how many people you can say "I do” to, Polygamist cannot control who they love, and polygamists should be permitted to live out customs in their religion freely. There should not be a limit on how many people someone can marry. The law that makes polygamy illegal goes against the first amendment. In the first amendment citizens are able to make their own decisions, they are able to speak freely, but people cannot marry as many people as they please. It is their decision who they marry, and it should be their decision on how many people they can marry. The government gets too involved in peoples personal lives, and they have no right to tell them the amount of people they can marry. People cannot control who they love, so they should be able to marry without restriction. Women have their own rights too people always make them out to be the victim in polygamist relationships. “As women, we really can make our own choices. We just might choose things people don’t like. If a woman wants to marry a man, that’s great. If she wants to marry another woman, that’s great too. If she wants to marry a hipster, well—I suppose that’s the price of freedom. And if she wants to marry a man with three other wives, that’s her damn choice.”(Keenan 8). People who know nothing of polygamy think that women are not treated as equals in the