[DAnconia55]

"I could ask WHERE you get your moral instruction that more than one wife is 'immoral'" Genesis 2:24 - Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

I'll skip belaboring the point here. Reading of that text could be interpeted that way, but others allowed for multiple wives throughout the Bible.

However, just because it is believed immoral by some religions does not give you a right to codify it into law.

And for the record : Anyone who wants two wives needs his head examined.

[DannyTN]

"Reading of that text could be interpeted that way, but others allowed for multiple wives throughout the Bible. "

The immorality of multiple wives was indeed tolerated. Laws were even prescribed to handle it. The same way divorce was tolerated and laws were prescribed to handle that.

But the Bible is clear. It's only because of the hardness of men's hearts, that it was tolerated.

[DannyTN]

"However, just because it is believed immoral by some religions does not give you a right to codify it into law. "

Communities have that right to codify it and anything else their citizens desire into law. The only exceptions are those specified protected rights that the states agreed to allow the Federal Government to insure for all it's citizens when they joined the Union.

Texas was well within their rights. It was the Supreme court that did not have the right to interfere with Texas law.