11. Polygamy has far more historical precedent. Do we want to go there as well?
“Polygamy has far more historical precedent. Do we want to go there as well?”
Well, actually... (just kidding)
Marriage even predates sin - consider that!
We may not WANT to go there; but, we will get there just the same. Once marriage has been RE-defined, it enables others to redefine it over and over again.
As I have been pointing out for a while: If there is nothing special about marriage being between one man and one woman, then, what is so special about the number two.
There is such a thing as a slippery slope; and the "gay" marriage movement is the first push down that slope.
Not it does not. Monogamy has always been the universal norm for the average household. While societies have allowed or tolerated the rich and powerful to amass women like they amass other forms of wealth and luxury, it is not the standard because of the biological reality that there are simply not enough women for every many to have multiple wives.
The historical reality is that polygamous societies are violent because in order for some men to have multiple wives means that other men must do without. This creates social friction that does violence towards young men who are competition to older more powerful men and towards young women who are turned into chattel and sold to these older men. There is also violence between the wives and violence between or toward the half siblings.
Such societies are made crippled, deformed and unstable by the practice of polygamy.