[DelphiUser]

U Said: whether or not the title of "wife" is mounted on the bedpost

Right there, you have lost this argument. IF the title of wife means nothing to you, then marriage is a sham and means nothing as well.

U Said: You and DelphiUser aren't going to start claiming that the mates (Hebrew underlying word--issah) of male clean & unclean animals are eligible to become plural wives, too, are you? :) [I think if I was the owner of a cow, and gave her as a "wife" (issah) to somebody already married, and if he had sex with the cow, I don't think we could jointly conclude that this man was a polygamist even if I did call the cow his "wife"!!!...which, BTW, is quite distinct from calling his wife his "cow"!!!:)]

This hysterical overreach, shows how bankrupt your arguments are. Nowhere did I even approach the idea of sex with animals, nor marriage to them. Your sick mind has led you here, and I leave you in your personal Gomorrah, may God have mercy upon your soul for even suggesting this.

[SkyPilot]

U Said: whether or not the title of "wife" is mounted on the bedpost

Right there, you have lost this argument. IF the title of wife means nothing to you, then marriage is a sham and means nothing as well.

He does respect the title wife DU - that is why he put it "wife" in quotes because these are not "wives" and they are not respected by 50+ year old men who physically abused them and sexually raped them. A wife is a wife. What we are talking about here is teen age sex slaves being called "wives" by evil people.

You know that too. Your attempt to be outraged and try to seize some sort of sanctimonious high ground on this is laughable.