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Would-be Tyrants obviously come from both sides of the political spectrum. To conflate polygamy with pedophilia is the height of hysterical propaganda. So-called conservatives should assiduously avoid such emotional manipulation, and not resort to the clumsy demagoguery characteristic of the authoritarian Left.

As we all know, many of the great patriarchs and leading figures of the Old Testament had more than one wife, and even the New Testament merely recommends that deacons, for instance, be the husband of only one wife (clearly implying that having more than one wife was at least tolerable, if not necessarily desirable.) And "that was then, this is now" doesn't suffice as an argument against the practice.

The same principle holds true for tolerating things like drugs and alcohol, as opposed to the Tyrannical thinking of Prohibitionists zealouts.

The fact that a Freedom might be abused is no excuse for criminalizing it. I, for one, can certainly be against pedophilia and gay marriage (let the gays call it schmarriage if they want) without having any cognitive dissonance regarding unconventional relationships, such as a husband having more than one wife.

Those who show such hysterical fear and opposition to polygamy apparently harbor an authoritarian impulse which far exceeds Christian notions of tolerance and free will, ultimately substituting narrow-minded individual and cultural prejudices in place of the Word of God. And that is flat out wrong.

"All things are lawful, but all things are not profitable." I Cor. 10:23. Those who wish to dictate personal choices for others should get off their dogmatic high horses and stop trying to act like they're wiser than God.

JMHO.

I have also always thought - better for a man to have more than one wife if, he can afford to support them, he is a solid Christian, insists they are the same and the children are brought up that way, than they be married to someone who may either abuse them or lead them away from God. There have been times in history too when there has been a lack of men because of their loss in wars. Better for a good Christian man to take on the burden of a woman and kids who may have otherwise starved or lived on the streets. Still he would have to be a better man than me as I have enough to do with one wife let alone many :)

Mel