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Whether they married monogamously or polygamously, berdaches had to observe traditional kinship rules for marriage.
Elizabeth Abbott: Is New York's Gay Marriage Truly Historic? Elizabeth Abbott 2011
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Whether they married monogamously or polygamously, berdaches had to observe traditional kinship rules for marriage.
Elizabeth Abbott: Is New York's Gay Marriage Truly Historic? Elizabeth Abbott 2011
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I stopped watching STTNG after the episode in which a group of obviously religious sectarians had to mate polygamously with a population of sterile clones, to ensure both groups continued, with Riker doing his best to start things off.
Conflicting Views on Religion and Science Fiction James F. McGrath 2010
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LP: "Do you foresee a time when people domiciled in this country, whose religion permits polygamy, will be allowed to marry polygamously in this country, and would you be content with that?"
Civil and religious law in England lecture - Question and Answer session 2008
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LP: "Do you foresee a time when people domiciled in this country, whose religion permits polygamy, will be allowed to marry polygamously in this country, and would you be content with that?"
Civil and religious law in England lecture - Question and Answer session 2008
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“In order to gain their eternal salvation, they feel they need to live polygamously, because that is one of the higher laws, to get them to the celestial kingdom.”
Smart case highlights Mormon church’s historical link to polygamy 2003
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In primitive warfare, where women were promptly enslaved, or, at the best, polygamously married, this did not greatly matter to the population; but as civilization advances and monogamy obtains, whatever eugenic benefits may once have sprung from warfare are completely lost, and all its injuries remain.
The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1897
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A diary kept by Mrs Mohammad, 53, who entered Canada claiming to be her husband's cousin after he married again polygamously, suggested that she was treated as a servant by Yahya, 42, and beaten by her husband, a father of seven, and his son.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Rosa Prince 2012
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The world's 1.2 billion Muslims tend to marry young and polygamously, and to have large families.
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It can also often lead to a certain individualistic, syncretism or 'spirituality' that tastes of various traditions; this can be done either serially and 'monogamously', 'polygamously' or in a sort of 'pick and choose' fashion.
orrologion 2009
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