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Originally Posted by Leslie  What's wrong with polygamy? O.k. polygamists can't be church elders but other than that. When, as in my location, schooling and employment is not readily available for females and there is no welfare system, for a widow becoming a second wife is the only option beside prostitution. Since the church here was founded by fundamentalists/legalists who believed in salvation by faith plus monogamy, polygamy is outlawed. Widows and their offspring are left to starve. Which is the greater evil--polygamy which, though not ideal, was never outlawed by scripture, or murder? |
IDEALLY, the same church that outlawed polygamy should be taking care of the widows and ophans. Those commands came from the same Bible.
The examples of multiple marriage in the Bible most often are full of problems. There is favortism of one wife's children over the others. There is jealousy amongst the wives over amount of children. When you add the other religious beliefs of the other wives, you add a whole other world of problems. The Bible says that a man should leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife.
Will it become legal? I don't know. I don't think it should. I do know that poligamist fathers are more invlolved with their children than many men with "baby's mamas" are. How many of them are just a paycheck to their children?