Sharia law reminds me of "to the pain" in The Princess Bride.

The UK is adopting the same economic system that the stone age people of Papua New Guinea have. There the men do nothing and the women earn all the money. Thus a man's wealth is determined by how many wives he has.

In like manner, British Muslims will not have to work and their income will be determined by the number of wives they have.

Think of this, if a man has three wives that means two other man must remain single. Those two frustrated men will be prime candidates for blowing up women and children. The British government has created state sponsored terrorism.

Very good points, Jake. And the British government has created a new term, too. We still have our American "welfare queens," now Britain will have its "welfare kings."

I generally don't care what consensual adults do between themselves. I don't care if he has one wife or twenty, or 300 concubines like Solomon supposedly had. But when I start to care is when the man inevitably can't support them all and uses government to make me give them money, and when underage girls are forced into the marriage (which happens a lot in the Mormon splinter clans in Utah and Arizona).

And we will soon face this in NY. It is the logical conclusion of Martinez vs Monroe County, wherein the NY Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage in Canada should be recognized in New York, because out-of-state opposite-sex marriages that would not have been legal in New York nonetheless are recognized unless such recognition would violate the public policy of the state. The Appellate Division reversed a trial judge's ruling in 2006 that Monroe Community College did not have to extend health benefits to an employee's same-sex spouse.

http://www.nyclu.org/node/1088

I really hate the ACLU.

Perry, we already have people with large families they can't support scrounging off the state. Someone in government has suggested that a job has to be on the list of prerequisites for being on the council house lists: good.

Oh, believe me, bryan, I personally know that all too well. I have a cousin in London who's a single mother on welfare. The reason she and her boyfriend never got married is so that she could get "benefits" (i.e. money from everyone else).

So you see, my point is that it doesn't matter what people's social situations are. I don't care if they're monogamous, polygamist or celibate. Just don't make me pay for supporting their lives.

Now how's this for a thought: if you don't pay any income taxes (including getting a full refund of withheld taxes so that you have no tax liability), you don't get to vote.

Perry, with so few people bothered to vote, it wouldn't surprise me if they gave it up for a free beer every week....