http://www.libertylawsite.org/liberty-forum/evaluating-the-moynihan-report-on-the-negro-family-50-years-later/
Moynihan proceeded to a sweeping historical and sociological analysis of the African American family. The strain of chattel slavery in this country was uniquely dehumanizing, destroying the families that labored under it. Jim Crow was equally degrading, especially to male pride. The result was a matriarchal structure out of sync with a broader society dominated by male authority.
---Steve
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No, Polygamy Isn’t the Next Gay Marriage - Jonathan Rauch - POLITICO Magazine
I'm not just making this up. There's an extensive literature on polygamy.
Here's a 2012 study, for example, that discovered "significantly higher levels of rape, kidnapping, murder, assault robbery and fraud in polygynous cultures." According to the research, "monogamy's main cultural evolutionary advantage over polygyny is the more egalitarian distribution of women, which reduces male competition and social problems."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/06/polygamy-not-next-gay-marriage-119614.html#ixzz3eef2cBKO
---Steve
Moral progress
We can beam with pride over the progress our country has now made with marriage equality.
A quick internet search on the humanities sweep of moral arc toward Justice:
Five countries still have a statutory death penalty for homosexuality, while a further 71 countries punish same-sex couples with lesser sentences of imprisonment or corporal punishment.
While women represent half the global population and one-third of the labor force, they receive only one-tenth of the world income
At least 20.9 million adults and children are bought and sold worldwide into commercial sexual servitude, forced labor and bonded labor.
Atheists living in 13 countries risk being condemned to death, just for their non-beliefs
Thank god I'm a member of only the last of these....
---Steve
A quick internet search on the humanities sweep of moral arc toward Justice:
Five countries still have a statutory death penalty for homosexuality, while a further 71 countries punish same-sex couples with lesser sentences of imprisonment or corporal punishment.
While women represent half the global population and one-third of the labor force, they receive only one-tenth of the world income
At least 20.9 million adults and children are bought and sold worldwide into commercial sexual servitude, forced labor and bonded labor.
Atheists living in 13 countries risk being condemned to death, just for their non-beliefs
Thank god I'm a member of only the last of these....
---Steve
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