Check out her other rulings, eg separation of church and state. She suffers no fools.

Adam and Eve, were never even legally married. They lived in sin all those years. Shame on them.

has a somewhat dubious progeny.

Adam was first married to some woman named Lilith. But she wasn't totally human.

So we got a divorced man, who married a half-human, half-something else, and (I think) he killed her in order to "marry" Eve.

Brothers and Sisters. Maybe Adam also took several of his daughters and grand daughters as wives once he got tired of Eve?

that morons love to thump, claiming it's divine approval for all their vicious bigotries.

Granted, in any group 80% think they're above average, and most of those think they're in the top 20%.

Then again, all the "channelers" pretty much invariably came out to be kings and queens, not hoi polloi. It's what they know from history. They only read the histories of prominent men.

Given mortality rates, for polygamy to have been the norm you'd have to have 2-3 women for every man.

Then again, if 70% of people think they're in the top 20%, I guess it doesn't surprise me to find that there's somebody who thinks that a nearly 50% to 50% ratio means 30% men and 70% women.

until the health advances of the last century.

It's very sobering to tour old graveyards in New England. There is usually a big headstone for the man, smaller headstones for the women he married once the last one had died from childbirth, malnutrition, and overwork, and a dozen or more tiny headstones for the children who died, usually before the age of 5. Boys were more fragile than girls, so that 70-30 ratio you cited wasn't unusual.

It's the same for rich men now, only the wives are discarded instead of buried and serial trophy wives don't crank babies out every year, it makes their hips widen and their boobs sag and that means the meal ticket will be on to the next one. Working class men who try serial polygamy need to keep moving to stay one state ahead of being chased down for child support.

So far as I know, perfectly accurate.

usually the multiple husbands or wives are brothers or sisters. this is the most common form of polygamy, because the spouses would all be related to the offspring, even if not the actual parent. The marriages are most often arranged by parents for the children - there was no choice for the spouses on any side.

The reason for these sorts of marriages is to maintain property within a few families.

Marrying for love is a recent phenomena.

juris prudence mixed with humor...

Thank you Judge Crabb.

Judge Crabb was born in 1939 (Wikipedia) so she is at least 74. She went on senior status (partially retired) in 2010. (By the way, this decision is already on her Wikipedia page. They are quick!)

It must suck when history doesn't support a narrow minded view.

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Fricken' religious nutjobs and their will ignorance...