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In all the discussion about legalizing polygamy, it seems that the thinkg all the religious people have forgotten is that God does not sanction it.

Gen 2:18-24 Then the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him." Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him. So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. The LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man." For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

*Wife* Singular. God created ONE woman for Adam, not a harem.

I Cor 7:2 But because of immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband.

Eph 5:31 & 33 FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND SHALL BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH. Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband.

I Tim 3:2 An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

I Tim 3:12 Deacons must be husbands of only one wife, and good managers of their children and their own households.

Titus 1:6 ...namely, if any man is above reproach, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, not accused of dissipation or rebellion.

God is pretty clear that a husband is to have one wife especially leaders in the church.