Posted on 03/04/2014 4:15:25 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Brady Williams and his five wives are the stars of a new reality series on TLC. The six Williams family members decided to go public with their story in order to dispel myths about polygamy, including about sexual relations between Brady and his wives.
"All of America is having sex," Brady told HuffPost Live. "It's no big deal to answer [questions]. We're not perverted, we're not twisted. We're normal – we're just normal times five."
However, Dean Gregory Alan Thornbury of the school of theology at Union University in Tennessee has been quick to point out that polygamy, even within "Christian" families, makes void God's command for one man and one woman to "become one flesh," as it is written in the Bible. He notes that the nouns used in this command are singular for a reason, in reference to the Garden of Eden, in which Adam and Eve were brought together by God -- one man, one woman.
The Williams family is the second polygamist family to be featured on TLC. Kody Brown and his four wives have starred in their own series for four seasons. The Brown family, like the Williams, wanted to go public in order to dispel myths about polygamy and religion. In fact, the Williams family has the Brown family to thank for allowing them to safely live in Utah.
Brady Williams and his five wives.
The Brown family sued the state after being "forced" to leave for practicing polygamy. The Browns won the lawsuit and now other polygamists are able to practice their beliefs in the state of Utah without fear of persecution.
"It's a first step in the right direction toward the de-marginalization of polygamists," Brady told the Associated Press soon after the court decision came down. "Women are not a commodity and they shouldn't be treated as such. There needs to be complete symmetry within a marriage."
However, there are others who feel that the Utah ruling sets a dangerous precedent for the institution of monogamous marriage.
"Same-sex marriage advocates have told us that people ought to be able to 'marry who they love' but have also always downplayed the idea that this would lead to legalized polygamy, a practice that very often victimizes women and children," Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, said in a statement after the ruling. "But if love and mutual consent become the definition of what the boundaries of marriage are, can we as a society any longer even define marriage coherently?"
The Williams family has 24 children and will be featured in the series, which returns on Sunday, March 9 at 10 p.m. EST on TLC.
The guy is winning man. Banging 5 wives. Just like a Muzzie. Probably a few headaches along the way. Bottom line...who cares. How does what they’re doing effect your life in any way?
I wonder if that's the case, though.
The Brown family, of "Sister Wives", has received food stamps and other forms of assistance. They filed for bankruptcy several times.
I’d rather have the check going to a committed family like that than say.... The Kardasians...
# 5 on the right seems to be a little chunky. As she adds weight, will she find herself getting less sex? None of them are babes.
In your eyes the guy might be winning, but the women are miserable. They’re fools for getting into such a situation.
Myths? Apparently Rocky Rooster is no myth.
An angel told me it was okay.
Is it just me or do no. 2 and 4 look to have the classic look/features of fetal alcohol syndrome?
“Freakier” than two men using their exhaust ports as pseudo vaginas? Or a “tongue and groove” relationship?
Obviously they don’t take The Bible seriously.
So, this is the story of a man named Brady who was stringing along five somewhat lovely wives ...
I was thinking that or inbreeding, haha... #1 has crazy eyes, and also #2 and #3 seem to be wearing the exact same top! That being said, if somebody held a gun to my head and said “choose,” I’d have to go with #3... just sayin’...
The Torah includes specific regulations on the practice of polygamy, such as Exodus 21:10, “If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights.” Deuteronomy 21:15–17, says that a man must award the inheritance due to a first-born son to the son who was actually born first, even if he hates that son’s mother and likes another wife more and Deuteronomy 17:17 states that the king shall not have too many wives.[3]
The first polygamist mentioned in the Bible is Lamech, whose two wives were Adah and Zillah (Genesis 4:19). Many important figures had more than one wife, such as Esau (Genesis 26:34; Genesis 28:6-9), Abraham (Genesis 16:3, Genesis 21:1-13, Genesis 25:1, Genesis 25:6), Moses (Exodus 2:21; Exodus 18:1-6, Numbers 12:1), Jacob (Genesis 29:15-28), Gideon (Judges 8:29-32), Elkanah (1 Samuel 1:1-8), David (1 Samuel 25:39-44; 2 Samuel 3:2-5; 2 Samuel 5:13-16) and Solomon (1 Kings 11:1-3).
Thats the other possibility. the compressed eye to mouth proportion is a giveaway.
Number 2, then number 1 for me.
I have a feeling that numbers 2 and 4 are sisters. Do you see it?
Yup, agreed. But there’s still something wrong with them..other than the polygamy.
lol. Now I’m humming it, thanks...
No one of more note than Issac and Rebecca lived the singular sense of Genesis 2:24.
IMHO, this was the goal, though not met well for centuries.
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